Read full poem →With light of ruin, and sound of changes, and pulse of years:
With travail of day after day, and with trouble of hour upon hour;
And bitter as blood is the spray; and the crests are as fangs that
Dictionary Entry
Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “travail”
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Read full poem →With light of ruin, and sound of changes, and pulse of years:
With travail of day after day, and with trouble of hour upon hour;
And bitter as blood is the spray; and the crests are as fangs that devour:
Read full poem →Who hath known the pain, the old pain of earth,
Or all the travail of the sea,
The many ways and waves, the birth
Read full poem →That holds the date of all of us;
We are born with travail and strong crying,
And from the birth-day to the dying
Read full poem →Through travail of ignoble midnight streets
He came at last to shelter in a porch
Read full poem →And the foolish, even children, are made wise;
For the big earth groans in travail for the strong, new world in making--
O my brothers, dreaming for dim centuries,
Read full poem →Without soem full of glee,
And let my heart within travail and moan.
Read full poem →Faites taire toutes ces voix qui montent
Jusqu'à ma table de travail.
Read full poem →Dwells she with us, or like adventuring knights
First travail we to seek and then make love?
Betray, kind husband, thy spouse to our sights,
Read full poem →Each noble heart: a worthy guide to bring
Our English youth by travail unto fame.