Read full poem →Shall cast down, shall build up, shall bring home;
Slake earth's hunger and thirst,
Lighten, and lead as a mother;
Dictionary Entry
To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
Origin
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Common Phrases
. slakeslake jarrow
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Poetry examples for “slake”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Might a soul bathe there and be clean,
Or slake its drought ?
Read full poem →His thirsty face, and drank a sea,
Athirst with thirst it could not slake.
I saw him, drunk with knowledge, take
Read full poem →Unless you take the vision to wife,
Which then seems lost, or serves to slake
Desire, as when a lovely lake
Read full poem →Of shepheards all that be with love ytake;
Well couth he wail his woes, and lightly slake
The flames which love within his heart had bred,
Read full poem →That shall alegge this bitter blast,
And slake the winter sorrow.
THO. Sicker, Willy, thou warnest well;
Read full poem →" Peona ! ever have I long'd to slake
My thirst for the world's praises : nothing base,
Read full poem →, ^A*TPrincesse of Beautie, for whose only sake
(i- *';, The raines of Love I love, though never slake,
And joy therein, though nations count it shame.