Read full poem →That thou decree if they mean Yea or Nay.'
'Did e'er so sweet a word such sweet gainsay!'
'And when I lean, Love, on you, thus, and smile
Dictionary Entry
To say something in contradiction to.
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. gainsaygainsay dare
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Poetry examples for “gainsay”
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Read full poem →Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!
I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth.
I have heard love talked in my early youth,
Read full poem →Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!
I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth:
I have heard love talked in my early youth,
Read full poem →_Ursula._ Ah, then
Gainsay it dare we not.
Read full poem →"Enough, enough, my yeoman good,[am]
Thy grief let none gainsay;
But I, who am of lighter mood,
Read full poem →heart,
Affection that will not be gainsay’d—the sense of what is real—the thought
if,
Read full poem →Through pastures not his own, the master took;
My Father dared his greedy wish gainsay;
He loved his old hereditary nook,