Read full poem →That began the ancient wrong;
Long the voice of tears is still
That wept of old the endless ill.
Dictionary Entry
A hole or break caused by tearing.
In a Sentence
“A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. tearscame tears
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Poetry examples for “tears”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Men loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarry
I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;
Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:
Read full poem →And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast:
There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow,
There the first roses of the year shall blow;
Read full poem →Muse! at that name thy sacred sorrows shed,
Those tears eternal, that embalm the dead;
Call round her tomb each object of desire,
Read full poem →Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief,
And till we share your joys, forgive our grief:
Read full poem →And kindly sigh for sorrows not your own,
Let me (if tears and grief permit) relate
A nearer woe, a sister's stranger fate.
Read full poem →For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage,
Commanding tears to stream through every age;
Tyrants no more their savage nature kept,
Read full poem →For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage,
Commanding tears to stream through every age;
Tyrants no more their savage nature kept,
Read full poem →By whose vile arts this heavy grief I bear;
She, at whose name I shed these spiteful tears,
She owes to me the very charms she wears.
Read full poem →Like a cursed cur, Malice before her clatters,
And vexing every wight, tears clothes and all to tatters.