Read full poem →Smite on the sudden, yet rode on, and pitch’d
His tents beside the forest. Then he drave
Origin
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Common Phrases
thee smite. smitesmite shalt
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Poetry examples for “smite”
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Read full poem →Beneath swift sighs that thicken,
Soft hands and lips that smite;
Lips that no love can tire,
Read full poem →It was wrought not with hands to smite,
Nor hewn after swordsmiths' fashion,
Read full poem →March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that
enkindle the season they smite.
Read full poem →That is not with us shall be,
And stronger the hands that smite
The heads of the sons of night,
Read full poem →Girt about with shadow, blind and lame,
Ghosts of things that smite and thoughts that sicken
Hunt and hound thee down to death and shame.
Read full poem →And as thorns crackling this man's laugh is vain.
Nor can belief touch, kindle, smite, reprieve
His heart who has not heart to disbelieve.
Read full poem →Who was it that provoked me? should he rail,
And I not smite? his death be on his head.’
But the voice answered in my soul again,
Read full poem →We will not let Him go
Till daybreak smite our wearied sight,
And summer smite the snow:
Read full poem →In pity, tho’ Thou frown;
Smite, but retrieve me:
For so Thou hold me up to stand