Read full poem →Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover’s sorrow;
Dictionary Entry
A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.
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Common Phrases
. sighescaped sighsigh deepsigh longsigh heavysigh littlesigh greatsigh last
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Poetry examples for “sigh”
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Read full poem →— Ah, life, what is it but a fower?
Why must true lovers sigh?
Read full poem →-Ah, life, what is it but a flower?
Why must true lovers sigh?
Be kind, have pity, my own, my pretty,-
Read full poem →Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Read full poem →Roxana, from the Court returning late,
Sigh'd her soft sorrow at St James's gate:
Such heavy thoughts lay brooding in her breast,
Read full poem →Here thy well-studied marbles fix our eye;
A fading fresco here demands a sigh:
Each heavenly piece unwearied we compare,
Read full poem →Not that their pleasures caused her discontent,
She sigh'd not that they staid, but that she went.
Read full poem →Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear,
(A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear,)
Recall those nights that closed thy toilsome days,
Read full poem →Ambition sigh'd: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column, and the crumbling bust: 20