Read full poem →All yesterday it poured, and all night long
I could not sleep; the rain unceasing beat
Upon the shingled roof like a weird song,
Dictionary Entry
Continuous; continuing indefinitely without stopping
Origin
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Common Phrases
. unceasingefforts unceasingstruggle unceasingvigilance unceasingeffort unceasingactivity unceasing
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Poetry examples for “unceasing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Let our unceasing, earnest prayer
Be, too, for light,--for strength to bear
Read full poem →The author has, a little above, used an argument, much to the honour
of the Catholic church--her unceasing diligence in labouring for the
conversion of the heathen; a task, in which her missionaries have
Read full poem →In the milk-white and wormy winding-sheet:
A short-lived hope, unceasing care,
Some heartless scraps of godly prayer,
Read full poem →his own day enveloping the great republican leader, still lay thick
and heavy over him. His wise statesmanship, his unceasing
earnestness, his high-minded purpose, were not yet seen."
Read full poem →THAT music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning—yet long untaught I did not hear;
But now the chorus I hear, and am elated;
Read full poem →Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant--
Bound to thy service with unceasing care,
The mind's least generous wish a mendicant