Careful Words

cease (n.)

cease (v.)

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind,

But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind!

What though my winged hours of bliss have been

Like angel visits, few and far between.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 375.

  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

Old Testament: Job iii. 17.

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer!

List, ye landsmen all, to me;

Messmates, hear a brother sailor

Sing the dangers of the sea.

George A. Stevens (1720-1784): The Storm.

  Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Old Testament: Isaiah ii. 22.