Read full poem →To hail this tree, and say, with weeping eyes,
'Within this plant my hapless parent lies:'
And when in youth he seeks the shady woods,
Dictionary Entry
Very unlucky; ill-fated.
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Common Phrases
victims haplessvictim haplessman haplesspeople haplessfate haplessyoung hapless
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Poetry examples for “hapless”
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Read full poem →To obey orders, and to fight it out.
Some hapless sad petitioner, no doubt,
With the true plaintiveness of real distress,
Read full poem →To obey orders, and to fight it out.
Some hapless sad petitioner, no doubt,
With the true plaintiveness of real distress,
Read full poem →Better than I their quiver knows them not:
Hapless is he that all the night lies quiet.
And slumbering, thinks himself much blessËd by it. 40
Read full poem →What helps it thou wert given to please my wench?
Birds' hapless glory, death thy life doth quench. 20
Thou with thy quills might'st make green emeralds dark,
Read full poem →And give me--meekly to do my will--
The hapless sons of men:--
But the wild goat bounding on the barren hill
Read full poem →Ochrous with ancient stains,
And infamous doors, opening on hapless rooms,
In whose unhaunted glooms
Read full poem →Whose beauty tempted Jove to steal the boy,
And Priam, hapless prince! who fell with Troy;
Himself was Hector's brother, and, had fate
Read full poem →For there the lily, and the musk-rose, sighing,
Are emblems true of hapless lovers dying:
Between her breasts, that never yet felt trouble,
Read full poem →For there the lily, and the musk-rose, sighing,
Are emblems true of hapless lovers dying:
Between her breasts, that never yet felt trouble,