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Bad luck, misfortune.
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Poetry examples for “mischance”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He never told us what he was,
Or what mischance, or other cause,
Had banished him from better days
Read full poem →Therefore his master gave him a quittance,
And bade him go, with sorrow and mischance.
And thus this jolly prentice had his leve:
Read full poem →In neither fortune loft nor yet repressed
To swell in wealth or yield unto mischance.
Read full poem →And calls Lucina to her throws;
But whether by mischance or blame
Atropos for Lucina came;
Read full poem →And then I did not leave its side at all,
Lest some mischance my flower should befall.
At last, oh joy! the central petals burst apart.
Read full poem →Some unforeseen misfortune comes gen’rally upon me, O;
Mischance, mistake, or by neglect, or my goodnatur’d folly, O:
But come what will, I’ve sworn it still, I’ll ne’er be melancholy, O.
Read full poem →Some unforeseen misfortune comes gen’rally upon me, O;
Mischance, mistake, or by neglect, or my goodnatur’d folly, O:
But come what will, I’ve sworn it still, I’ll ne’er be melancholy, O.
Read full poem →In Fortune's varying colours drest:
Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance,
Or chill'd by age, their airy dance
Read full poem →In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt,
To swell in wealth, or yield unto mischance.
A valiant corpse, where force and beauty met :