Read full poem →loves, the griefs, the hopes, the fears--in his own breast; to find
some kind of counterpoise to the struggles of a world, always an alien
scene, a task uncouth to the poetical mind--these were his motives for
Dictionary Entry
A weight sufficient to balance another, for example in the opposite end of scales; an equal weight.
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. counterpoiseagainst counterpoise
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