Read full poem →Red wrath, compassion golden, lazuline delight.'
Thus, in reproof of my despondency,
My Mentor; and thus I:
Dictionary Entry
The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
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Poetry examples for “despondency”
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Read full poem →Where woven boughs shut out the moon's bright ray,
Should sad Despondency my musings fright,
And frown, to drive fair Cheerfulness away,
Read full poem →Human Life.
Despondency.
Youth's Agitations--A Sonnet.
Read full poem →More fleet than storms—the wide world shrinks below,
When winter and despondency are past. _260
Read full poem →Such gloom,--why man has such a scope
For love and hate, despondency and hope?
Read full poem →I shall go journeying, who but I, pleasantly!
Sorrow is vain and despondency sinful. 880
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Read full poem →[These verses the poet, in his common-place book, calls "Misgivings in
the Hour of Despondency and Prospect of Death." He elsewhere says they
were composed when fainting-fits and other alarming symptoms of a
Read full poem →The Lament
Despondency: An Ode
To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending a Boy.