Read full poem →the Chapel bell!
Shall I hear in one dark room a wailing, ‘I have
Dictionary Entry
To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
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Poetry examples for “wailing”
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Read full poem →Not many moons, King Uther died himself,
Moaning and wailing fc for an heir to rule
After him, lest the realm should go to wrack.
Read full poem →He shuts the door. The rushes fall again to stillness along the floor.
Outside, the wind goes wailing.
Read full poem →Of vanquished men, long-sunken out of sight,
Sent wailing down to glut the ghoulish sprite
Who haunts foul seaweed forests and their caves.
Read full poem →' is time lias been wasted in unprofitable toil when he only
Might amusement, in wailing through volumes lo be at last
rewarded by a solitary gem, the value of which has been
Read full poem →I didn’t go to bed that day. My mother was reading the note. Soon I heard
her crying. Then she was wailing. “Oh, my god! You’ve disgraced your
father and myself! It’s a disgrace! Suppose the neighbors find out? What
Read full poem →A sound had come from the depths of the forest not unlike the wailing of
a babe. Frank could give a guess what made it, but he did not
Read full poem →Ah, how sad and slow!
Wailing and praying
The spirits rise and go:
Read full poem →Her cheeks were scratched, her goodly hairs dishevelled.
She, wailing Mar's sin and her uncle's crime,
Strayed barefoot through sole places[375] on a time. 50
Read full poem →"All so my lustful leaf is dry and sere,
My timely buds with wailing all are wasted;
The blossom which my branch of youth did bear,
