Read full poem →In days of old, they pardon'd breach of vows,
Stern Cato's self was no relentless spouse: 30
Plu--Plutarch, what's his name that writes his life?
Dictionary Entry
Unrelenting or unyielding in severity.
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Common Phrases
. relentlesspursuit relentlesspressure relentlesswar relentlessstruggle relentlessdrive relentless
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Poetry examples for “relentless”
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Read full poem →Ah, stern cold man,
How can you lie so relentless hard
While I wash you with weeping water!
Read full poem →Yet shall one time feel the strong cord tighten about me,--
Feel it, relentless, upbear me from spots I would rest in; and though the
Rope sway wildly, I faint, crags wound me, from crag unto crag re-
Read full poem →As he lay stricken in the White House, the
relentless hand of malice beat upon the door of
the sick chamber. The enemies of the President
Read full poem →Ah, stern cold man,
How can you lie so relentless hard
While I wash you with weeping water!
Read full poem →Th’ injurious deed alike is done
By the hot relentless sun.
E’en the dew is parched up
Read full poem →and drolled on the city Do-littles, to tickle the Covent-Garden
Limberhams[1]." Even Langbaine, relentless as he is in criticism,
seems to have considered the condemnation of Limberham as the
Read full poem →Should e'er unhappy love my bosom pain,
From cruel parents, or relentless fair;
O let me think it is not quite in vain
Read full poem →The inevitable loss.
Relentless tyrant! at thy call
How do the good, the virtuous fall!
Read full poem →Should Time send o'er you its relentless stream,