Citations:benison

Noun

 * 1841, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "God's-Acre" from Ballads and Other Poems:
 * It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.


 * 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Forgotten Tale" from Songs of Action :
 * 'Hush! but we are Spanish too; More I may not say to you: May God's benison, like dew, Gently settle o'er them.'


 * 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "To Her" from The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:
 * Your presence like a benison to me / wakes my sick soul to dreamful ecstasy, I fancy that some old Arabian night / Saw you my houri and my heart's delight.


 * 1921, Henry Clarence Pitz, "The Shining Adventure" from St. Nicholas, Volume 48, Issue 1:
 * Day by day we scudded south, Under a torrid sun; At night the stars, in our teak-wood spars, Twinkled a benison.