"Plaining" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all this wormy circumstance? Why linger at the yawning tomb so long? O for the gentleness of old Romance, The simple plaining of a minstrel's song! Fair reader, at the old tale take a glance, For here, in truth, it doth not well belong 390 To speak:—O turn thee to the very tale, And taste the ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
... being there they did break forth afresh In a new birth, immingled with my own, And still bewept my grief. Keeping unchanged The purport of their coinage. Her long ringlets, Drooping and beaten with the plaining wind, Did brush my forehead in their to-and-fro: For in the sudden anguish of her heart Loosed from their simple thrall they had flowed abroad, And onward floating in a full, dark wave, Parted on either side her argent neck, Mantling ...
— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... whispers it shall not be so; Each purified spirit my bosom shall know, And all unremembered the 'plaining of woe, We'll joy in ...
— Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life. • Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney |
