Read full poem →By the Great Wounds of Holy Jesus, it is his dear lady, kissing and
clasping someone! Through the sobbing storm he hears her love take form
and flutter out in words. They prick into his ears and stun his desire,
Dictionary Entry
To weep with convulsive gasps.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. sobbinguncontrollably sobbingsobbing stillsobbing begansobbing started
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Poetry examples for “sobbing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →She began sobbing. “Don’t, Pete, don’t...”
Read full poem →I found her afterwards apart,
Hysterically sobbing. I
Knew much too well to ask her why.
Read full poem →Who, kiss’d at Christmas, call’d me rude,
And, sobbing low, refused to sing?
How changed! In shape no slender Grace,
Read full poem →With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet
From his late sobbing wet.
And I, with moan,
Read full poem →And when, a little while before,
I saw her sobbing on the floor,
Because I told her that in heaven
Read full poem →With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet
From his late sobbing wet.
And I, with moan,
Read full poem →The moaning and groaning,
The sighing and sobbing,
Are quieted now,
Read full poem →Of the bells, bells, bells--
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
Read full poem →Of the bells, bells, bells—
To the sobbing of the bells:—
Keeping time, time, time,