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Wailful   Listen
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Wailful  adj.  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." "Wailful sonnets."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wailful" Quotes from Famous Books



... fellowship was one - Drew the bolt of Nature's secrecies. I knew all the swift importings On the wilful face of skies; I knew how the clouds arise Spumed of the wild sea-snortings; All that's born or dies Rose and drooped with—made them shapers Of mine own moods, or wailful or divine - With them joyed and was bereaven. I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities. I laughed in the morning's eyes. I triumphed and I saddened with all weather, Heaven and I wept together, And its sweet tears were salt with ...
— Poems • Francis Thompson

... I can do, I will effect: But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough; You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes Should be full-fraught with ...
— Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare



Words linked to "Wailful" :   lamenting, sorrowful



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