Read full poem →Wherein I saw so fair a sight as she:
Yet all for naught: such sight hath bred my bane.
Ah, God! that love should breed both joy and pain!
Dictionary Entry
A cause of misery or death.
In a Sentence
“the bane of one's existence”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “bane”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Hony of roses, whither wilt thou flie?
Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?
And wilt thou leave the Church, and love a stie?
Read full poem →Yet weep'st thou, when thou seest him hungerly
Swallow his owne death, hearts-bane jealousie.
O give him many thanks, he'is courteous, 15
Read full poem →No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist
Wolf's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine;
Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss'd
Read full poem →Sign of the enchanter's death;
Bane of every wicked spell;
Silencer of dragon's yell.
Read full poem →And there will be Kempleton’s birkie,
A boy no sae black at the bane;
But as to his fine Nabob fortune,
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Read full poem →Weaving many a soldier's doom,
Orkney's woe and Randver's bane.
Read full poem →“We have triumphed: this achievement turns the bane to antidote,
Unsuccesses to success,
Read full poem →And sweetly o'er the lake was heard thy strain,
Mixed with the sounding harp, O white-haired Allan-bane!