Read full poem →’Twere but the silly and contrarious mood
Of one whose sympathies refuse to mix
In aught not felt immediate from himself.
Dictionary Entry
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
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Common Phrases
. sympathieslay sympathiessympathies whosesympathies politicalsympathies human
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Poetry examples for “sympathies”
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Read full poem →Paris the highmJndedness, the human affections* and
the swift sympathies which her grandfather gave her
through long contact with sorrow and heart-break/'
Read full poem →constitutional hardihood,--all these advantages, elevated by the habits
and sympathies of noble birth and national character, are supposed to
have combined in Don Juan, so as to give him the means of carrying into
Read full poem →Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
To those who seek all sympathies in one!—
Such once I sought in vain; then black despair,
Read full poem →Keep with thy glorious train firm state within his heart.
Thou messenger of sympathies,
That wax and wane in lovers' eyes--
Read full poem →Alas, that love should be a blight and snare
To those who seek all sympathies in one!--
Such once I sought in vain; then black despair,
Read full poem →Nursing in some delicious solitude
Their slothful loves and dainty sympathies !
I therefore go, and join head, heart, and hand,
Read full poem →Breathes no All’s-Well to me,
My lack might move their sympathies
And Christian charity!
Read full poem →are destined to a wider and higher influence; in fact, the development
of that influence, the return to primitive sympathies between artist and
audience, which may make possible once more the assertion of primitive
Read full poem →I THOUGHT of Thee, my partner and my guide,
As being past away.—Vain sympathies!
For, backward, Duddon, as I cast my eyes,