Read full poem →Not her own chairmen with more weight oppress'd:
They curse the cruel weight they're doom'd to bear;
She in more gentle sounds express'd her care.
Dictionary Entry
Destiny, especially terrible.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. doomdoom impending
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Poetry examples for “doom”
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Read full poem →And thou, bless'd maid! attendant on his doom,
Pensive hast follow'd to the silent tomb,
Read full poem →And cite those Sapphos we admire no more:
Fate doom'd the fall of every female wit;
But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ.
Read full poem →So Luther thought the Pater-noster long,
When doom'd to say his beads and even-song;
But having cast his cowl, and left those laws,
Read full poem →Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball;
Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall,
Haste then, ye spirits! to your charge repair:
Read full poem →5 But if the first Eve
Hard doom did receive,
When only one apple had she,
Read full poem →The stars that fall from Celia's eye,
Declare our doom in drawing nigh.
Read full poem →Follow Light, and do the Right—for man can half-
control his doom—
Till you find the deathless Angel seated in the
Read full poem →by time or by tempest entombed,
As a pinnacle carven and gilded of men: for the date of its doom is
no more than an hour's,