Read full poem →Asked for a groat, he gives a hundred pounds;
Or if three ladies like a luckless play,
Takes the whole house upon the poet's day.
Dictionary Entry
Unsuccessful, in a failing manner.
Origin
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Common Phrases
wight lucklessman luckless. lucklesshour lucklessvictim lucklessday luckless
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Poetry examples for “luckless”
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Read full poem →Ambrose Philips, and Pope assisted him in the composition of his
luckless farce, 'Three Hours after Marriage'. When Gay's opera 'Polly'
was forbidden by the licenser, and Gay's patrons, the Duke and Duchess
Read full poem →This is a question which, oh heaven, withdraw
The luckless query from a member's claw!
Instead of two sides, Job [Bob] has nearly eight,
Read full poem →And angry gods pursue from coast to coast,
Can nowhere find to shroud my luckless pate.
Read full poem →With an oath he answered
Thus the luckless Queen:
Read full poem →_Herod._ Ah, luckless day! What words of fear
Are these that smite upon my ear
Read full poem →And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower,
With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour,
When idly first, ambitious of the town,
Read full poem →Until the flowery snare
O’witching Love, in luckless hour,
Made me the thrall o’ care.
Read full poem →A certain Bardie's rantin, drinkin,
Some luckless hour will send him linkin
To your black pit;
Read full poem →But luckless Fortune’s northern storms
Laid a’ my blossoms low, O!