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To watch with compensating eyes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"


That brings the wayfarer his recompense - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Of many woes the perfect recompense - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

A gift whose recompense is double - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 20" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]


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