Read full poem →A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
I am sick of singing: the bays burn deep and chafe: I am fain
To rest a little from praise and grievous pleasure and pain.
Dictionary Entry
Heat excited by friction.
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Poetry examples for “chafe”
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Read full poem →A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
I am sick of singing; the bays burn deep and chafe: I am fain
To rest a little from praise and grievous pleasure and pain.
Read full poem →Thy fear is than her body valued more. 30
Although thou chafe, stolen pleasure is sweet play;
She pleaseth best, "I fear," if any say.
Read full poem →My strength, as once it was my bliss.
And do not chafe at social rules.
Leave that to charlatans and fools.
Read full poem →“Come, climb into my lap,
And I’ll chafe your little bones
While you take a nap.”
Read full poem →Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away!
Read full poem →What he owes me himself! 30
No: I could not but smile thro' my chafe:
For the fellow lay safe
Read full poem →Larch-heart that chars to a chalk-white glow:
They up they hoist me John in a chafe,
Sling him fast like a hog to scorch,
Read full poem →Who threaten'd stripes, if he his wrath did prove:
But she in chafe him from her lap did shove,
Brake bow, brake shafts, while Cupid weeping sate:
Read full poem →Lether, if it be nexte a mans skynne, wyl sweat, waxe hard
and chafe, therefore scarlet for the softnes of it and thick-
nesse wyth all is good to sewe wythin a mannes glove. If