Read full poem →Fields where plough-horses steam and plovers
Fling and whimper, hedges that lovers
Love, and orchards, shrubberies, walls
Dictionary Entry
A low intermittent sob.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. whimperescaped whimperwhimper littlewhimper softwhimper small
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Poetry examples for “whimper”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Love, on myriad lips fairer than yours, kisses you could not give! . . .
Dearest, why should I mourn, whimper, and whine, I that have yet to live?
Sorrow will I forget, tears for the best, love on the lips of you,
Read full poem →Proclaiming something harsher than he learned
From hearing signboards whimper in cold nights
Or seeing the midsummer artifice