Read full poem →Not only is Chicago a receiving station and port of
refuge for colored people who are anxious to be free from
Dictionary Entry
A state of safety, protection or shelter.
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Poetry examples for “refuge”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Strong thy rock where the storm-blast rages,
Rock of refuge, the Rock of Ages.
Read full poem →And oft from mine own spirit's hurtling harms
I crave the refuge of her deep embrace,--
Against all ills the fortified strong place
Read full poem →As in Love's harbour, even that loving breast,
All care takes refuge while we sink to rest,
And mutual dreams the bygone bliss retrieve.
Read full poem →Water Besant, author of Beyond the Dreams of
Avarice, The City of Refuge, etc. .
Read full poem →found,--never throughout the day, always in the night,--if not the Atlantis
whence he had wandered, at least a place of refuge from the bounds in which
by day he was immured.
Read full poem →I turn my troubled eyes, nor here nor there
Find any refuge from thee, yet I swear
So has it been with mist,--with moonlight so.
Read full poem →I turn my troubled eyes, nor here nor there
Find any refuge from thee, yet I swear
So has it been with mist,--with moonlight so.
Read full poem →Up from the dirty earth men stare:
One imagines a refuge there
Above the mud, in the pure bright
Read full poem →Are shut from countless hearts that seek
World-refuge that will never come.