Dictionary Entry
A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.
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Poetry examples for “jealousy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →marriage, he has passed over the offered flower "such as May never bore,"
the rose herself "turns away with jealousy," and gives him thorns for
thanks: nothing left of it for hand or lip but collapsed blossom and
Read full poem →In merest accidents of earth and air,
They cause, I think, a sort of jealousy—
Ill-blood. Hark, now!
Read full poem →and this is all that nature permitted him. to do: for
jealousy may he eradicated from rational minds, like
those of Kitely and his wife, but cowardice cannot
Read full poem →decency sake, but I will insert it here as proper to the subject we are
now upon. Philaster being violently agitated by jealousy, ancl firmly be-
lieving his mistress to have been 'loose, thus speaks of a letter which he
Read full poem →Strength and delicacy are here in perfect union. In like manner Post-
humus in Cymbeline, act ii, agitated by as violent a jealousy of his wife,
thus describes her seeming modesty :
Read full poem →And then to go to bed, and lie
In a sort of heavenly jealousy,
Until 'twas broad day, and I guess'd
Read full poem →strange and inexplicable jealousy of the Presi-
Read full poem →For the Gods in their jealousy
Murdered that wife and man,
Read full poem →Doth not retract a single spice
For pang of jealousy --
