Read full poem →Tells to my fearful breast a tale of sorrow,
O bright-eyed Hope, my morbid fancy cheer;
Let me awhile thy sweetest comforts borrow:
Dictionary Entry
Of, or relating to disease.
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anatomy morbidconditions morbidcondition morbid. morbidstate morbidprocess morbid
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Poetry examples for “morbid”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →extreme refinement and analysis, his conceptions might be betrayed
into the assuming a morbid character. The reader will judge whether he
is a loser or gainer by this diffidence. [Shelley’s Note.]
Read full poem →Care grows on care, and o'er my aching brain
Black melancholy pours her morbid train.
No kind relief, no lenitive at hand,
Read full poem →Fixing his downward eye, he many an hour
A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here
An emblem of his own unfruitful life:
Read full poem →slouch my hips, one up and one down, so I'll look shorter, and I feel
gawky and morbid as somebody in a side-show.
Read full poem →Out of the bulk, the morbid and the shallow,
Out of the bad majority—the varied, countless frauds of men and States,
Read full poem →Fixing his downward eye, he many an hour
A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here
An emblem of his own unfruitful life: