upbear

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Words are no veil between us and him, but a luminous cloud that upbears us both together.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

Here earth lies lordly, triumphal as heaven is above her, And splendid and strange as the sea that upbears as an ark, As a sign for the rapture of storm-spent eyes to discover,    Sark.

From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Between the dignity which upbears her and the sorrow which crushes her, she is pathetic as a bruised lily.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

My father called, his child forlorn address’d, And in these words prophetic thoughts express’d: ‘O Daughter, many sorrows yet abide, Ere fortune’s stream upbears thee on its tide.’

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

That retreat a Goddess holds,   Daughter of sapient Atlas, who the abyss Knows to its bottom, and the pillars high Himself upbears which sep’rate earth from heav’n.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William