Read full poem →Thro' the still altering world, around her changeless head.
Therefore no 'plaint be mine
Of listeners none,
Dictionary Entry
A lament or woeful cry.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “plaint”
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Read full poem →Of all these mystical cadences, the plaint of _The Raven_, vibrating
through the portal, chiefly has impressed the outer world. What things go
Read full poem →Then sighing softly sore, and inly deepe,
She shut up all her plaint in privy griefe
For her great courage would not let her
Read full poem →--Vierges d'hier, ce soir traîneuses de fœtus,
A genoux! voici l'heure où se plaint l'Angélus.
Read full poem →The secret groves which oft we made resound
Of pleasant plaint and of our ladies' praise,
Recording soft what grace each one had found,
Read full poem →Go, cease your wail, lugubrious saint!
You fret high Heaven with your plaint.
Is this the "Christian's joy" you paint?
Read full poem →"voice more sweet than the far plaint of viols is,
Or the soft moan of any grey-eyed lute player."
Read full poem →One face, with lips than autumn-lilies tenderer,
And voice more sweet than the far plaint of viols
is,
Read full poem →[8] It bids thee hear the tearful plaint of woe MS. E.
Read full poem →Yet hiding royall bloud full- oft in rurall vaine.
To some a sweetest plaint a swdfetest stile affords,
While teares powre out his inke, and sighs breathe out