Read full poem →Then from his closing eyes thy form shall part,
And the last pang shall tear thee from his heart;
Life's idle business at one gasp be o'er,
Dictionary Entry
(often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. pangpang sharppang suddenpang liupang bitterpang onepang little
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Poetry examples for “pang”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Epitaph. on Dr Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, Who Died in Exile at Paris, 1732.byAlexander Pope
Read full poem →Yes, we have lived--one pang, and then we part!
May Heaven, dear father! now have all thy heart.
Read full poem →'Will it hurt much?'--'No, mine own:
I wish I could bear the pang for both.'
'I wish I could bear the pang alone:
Read full poem →Should I not turn with yearning eyes,
Turn earthwards with a pitiful pang?
O save me from a pang in Heaven!
Read full poem →Though each one sighs as if to each alone
The cherish'd pang were known?
At dusk of dawn, on his dark spray apart,
Read full poem →O bitterly beloved! and all her gain
Is but the pang of unpermitted prayer.
Read full poem →'Tis a light pang. I like to see the nests
Still in their places, now first known,
Read full poem →Birthday of but a single pang
That there are less to come --
Read full poem →The Value could not be --
We buy with contrast -- Pang is good
As near as memory --
Read full poem →Doth not retract a single spice
For pang of jealousy --