Read full poem →In many an eye that measures me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be kind.
Dictionary Entry
The condition of being ill or having a disease.
In a Sentence
“The widespread sickness kept many children home from school.”
Origin
From Old English 'sēocnes', from 'sēoc' (sick).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “sickness”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Trust not too much your now resistless charms,
Those, age or sickness, soon or late, disarms:
Good-humour only teaches charms to last,
Read full poem →On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapp'd in a gown, for sickness, and for show.
The fair ones feel such maladies as these,
Read full poem →As they knew thy name of old time could we know it,
Healer called of sickness, slayer invoked of wrong,
Light of eyes that saw thy light, God, king, priest, poet,
Read full poem →Thy help my soul hath found.
Though loss and sickness me assailed,
Through Thee I've kept my ground.
Read full poem →And send them prosperous gales.
In storms and sickness, Lord, preserve.
Thy goodness never fails.
Read full poem →No, I do know that I was born
To age, misfortune, sickness, grief:
But I will bear these with that scorn
Read full poem →“ and manners, and also for infection in the time of
“ sickness. Wherefore they w’ere afterwards for some
** time totally suppressed. But, upon application to
Read full poem →Therein how ease and also pain,
How health and sickness, every one
Is vanity beneath the sun.
Read full poem →No faithless witch in Thessal waters bathed thee. 40
No sickness harmed thee (far be that away!),
No envious tongue wrought thy thick locks' decay.