Dictionary Entry

suck

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /sʌk/Used In Literature ↓

An instance of drawing something into one's mouth by inhaling.

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Common Phrases

. suck

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Poetry examples for “suck”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Pursue the stars that shoot athwart the night,
Or suck the mists in grosser air below,
Or dip their pinions in the painted bow,

The senses and the sorrows and the sins,
And the strange loves that suck the breasts of Hate
Till lips and teeth bite in their sharp indenture,

There were no strong pools in the hollow sea
To drag at them and suck down side and beak,
No wind to catch them in the teeth and hair,

He is dumb under axe or dart;
You suck with a sleepy red lip
The wet red wounds in his heart.

The bee that once did suck thee,
And build thy perfumed ambers up his hive,

How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
'The child is father to the man.'

I have given suck, and know
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:

Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?

So, carelesse flowers strow'd on the waters face, 15
The curled whirlepooles suck, smack, and embrace,
Yet drowne them; so, the tapers beamie eye

With scorn and shame, that him it nourish'd not;
If he suck'd hers, I let him know
'Twas not a tear which he had got;