Read full poem →Hail Adam, and hail Eve! your children rise
And call you blessed, in their glad surmise
Of Paradise.
Dictionary Entry
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
In a Sentence
“surmises of jealousy or of envy”
Origin
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Poetry examples for “surmise”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To lands unspeakable—beyond surmise,
Read full poem →Brag of their full-blown rights and liberties,
Nor once surmise
When each man gets his due the Nation dies;
Read full poem →And, lo, the glad surprise
Of peace beyond surmise,
More than in common Saints, for ever in his eyes.'
Read full poem →Look on thyself without her, and recall
The waste remembrance and forlorn surmise
That lived but in a dead-drawn breath of sighs
Read full poem →Bursting down like rockets,
And surmise the spring again,
Or, remote in that black cupboard,
Read full poem →That dried stick the ripple washes
Marks the spot, I should surmise.
Read full poem →And weigh him in the light. Once (I believe
I tell you nothing new to your surmise,
Or to the tongues of towns and villages)
Read full poem →Far journeys and hard wandering
Await him in whose crude surmise
Peace, like a mask, hides everything
Read full poem →The roses that had been his fall;
The Scarlet One, as you surmise,
Fled with him, coral, rouge, and all.
