Read full poem →Pass from me; yet thine arms, thine eyes, thine hair,
Feed my desire and deaden my despair.
Yet once more ere time change us, ere my cheek
Dictionary Entry
To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
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pain deadensound deaden
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Poetry examples for “deaden”
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Read full poem →And peace unspeakable, a joy
Which hope would deaden and destroy,
Like sunshine fills the airy gulf
Read full poem →To exhilarate the higher mind,
Your soul would deaden useless wings
With wickedness of lawful things,
Read full poem →ranking--a practice that thwarts genuine personal influence, formalizes
all procedures, and tends to deaden natural interest by substituting for
it the artificial interest of school standing. The Milton lesson must be
Read full poem →In vain, the bright course of thy talents to wrong,
Fate deaden'd thine ear and imprison'd thy toung;
For brighter o'er all her obstructions arose