soothes
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Yet thy mild wing gives relief, Soothes the aching eyelid's pain; Ah, I else had died for grief, Him ne'er hoped to see again.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
The sound of thy soft name Soothes me with balm of Memory and Hope.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian
The heavenly bay, ringed round with cliffs and moors, Storm-stained ravines, and crags that lawns inlay, Soothes as with love the rocks whose guard secures The heavenly bay.
From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
To no cold ear was that appeal prefer'd; With glowing bosom grateful England heard; With liberal hand she pours the prompt relief, Soothes the sick head, and wipes the tear of grief.
From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas
No, naught but Music's strain, When lovers part in pain, Soothes till they meet again, Oh, Maids of Zea!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
