Read full poem →Fain I'd in Fulvia spy the tender wife;
I cannot prove it on her, for my life:
Dictionary Entry
Well-pleased, glad.
Origin
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Common Phrases
know fainhope fainsee fain. fainbelieve fainmake fainfain am
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “fain”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Fain would my Muse the flowery treasures sing,
And humble glories of the youthful Spring;
Read full poem →The wild-winged hour that we fain would capture
Falls as from heaven that its light feet clomb,
Read full poem →Three months bade wane and wax the wintering moon
Between two dates of death, while men were fain
Yet of the living light that all too soon
Read full poem →As yet with winds that play,
Would fain be matched with this, and may not:
What likeness may?
Read full poem →A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
I am sick of singing: the bays burn deep and chafe: I am fain
To rest a little from praise and grievous pleasure and pain.
Read full poem →A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold?
I am sick of singing; the bays burn deep and chafe: I am fain
To rest a little from praise and grievous pleasure and pain.
Read full poem →Fain, fain would we see but again for an hour what the wind and the
sun have dispelled and consumed,
Read full poem →What should ail an undefiled
Heart, that he would fain appear
Not a child?
Read full poem →With all birds' notes from nightingale to dove
Fill the world whither we too fain would win.