Careful Words

suck (n.)

suck (v.)

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!

Christopher Marlowe (1565-1593): Faustus.

See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll,

Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Eloisa to Abelard. Line 323.