surcease

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Calm little figure, ivy-crowned, How long beneath the barren tree Where this pale, martyred god has found Surcease from his long agony, You watch with an untroubled gaze Life move on its accustomed ways!

From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin

O favour of full moon in sheen, never may sun o' thee * Surcease      to rise from Eastern rim with all-enlightening ray!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I go wherever men may dare, I go wherever woman's care     And love can live, Wherever strength and skill can bring Surcease to human suffering,     Or solace give.

From A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 by Clarke, George Herbert

Surcease, sur-sēs′, v.i. to cease.—v.t. to cause to cease.—n. cessation.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Wherefore, my Eblis, it were wise to seek Surcease of grief.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Collier, Ada Langworthy