Read full poem →I have told no one but you, Holy Mary. My mother would call me "whore",
and spit upon me; the priest would have me repent, and have
the rest of my life spent in a convent. I am no whore, no bad woman,
Dictionary Entry
To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of".
Origin
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Common Phrases
. repentye repent
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Poetry examples for “repent”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Told him) the house we should go to. Or may it, perhaps, have miscarried?
Any way, now, I repent, and am heartily vexed that I wrote it.
Read full poem →(Why will we die?)—
“Come and repent: come and amend: come joy
the joys unsatiate”—
Read full poem →You sinned with me a pleasant sin:
Repent with me, for I repent.
Woe's me the lore I must unlearn!
Read full poem →Do you, that have nought other to lament,
Never, my Love, repent
Of how, that July afternoon,
Read full poem →Good is thy lot in its degree;
For hearts that verily repent
Are burden’d with impunity
Read full poem →Do you, that have nought other to lament,
Never, my Love, repent
Of how, that July afternoon,
Read full poem →And all the way he prayed, as he went, 260
And often knockt his brest, as one that did repent.
Read full poem →Somewhere in me there's a woman, if you know the way to find her.
Will you like me any better if I prove it and repent?"