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Examples
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Would my lips breathe a flame, which no stream could assuage,
Fugitive Pieces 2007
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And the hearts by wrongs rous'd, that no fear could assuage,
Poetic Sketches Thomas Gent
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With a volume she fain her wild thoughts would assuage,
Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War Margaret J. Preston
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With an anguished, husky thirst that you cannot assuage,
Epilogue David Herbert 1916
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Yet all their art availed not/their anger to assuage,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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With an anguished, husky thirst that you cannot assuage,
Amores Poems 1907
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With a volume she fain her wild thoughts would assuage,
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Here chiefs their thirst of power in blood assuage,
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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Would my lips breathe a flame, which no stream could assuage,
Fugitive Pieces George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Would my lips breathe a flame which no stream could assuage,
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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