Read full poem →Nor ought but love from thee give recompetence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay.
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Dictionary Entry
To pay back.
In a Sentence
“I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.”
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Poetry examples for “repay”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Curtailed my pleasures toil still extra toil,
To repay you for what you never gave.
Is it not true?
Read full poem →by no means certain, that there was attraction enough
to repay the pains of resuscitation, for, in fact, the
humours were those of its own day, and that day was
Read full poem →My self oaths in Carpathian seas to cast. 20
For which good turn my sweet reward repay,
Let me lie with thee, brown Cypass, to-day.
Read full poem →It labors and loves, as it were a soul
Whom the gods repay
With length of life, and a golden goal
Read full poem →The warmest mirth on coldest nights.
And so for gain, that joy's repay,
Change cheats the landscape every day,
Read full poem →Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking;
There's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay._
Read full poem →And can I e'er these benefits forget?
And can I e'er repay the friendly debt?
No, doubly no;--yet should these rhymings please,
Read full poem →Would the hope, which thou once bad'st me cherish,
For torture repay me too well?
Now sad is the garden of roses,
