"Plaining" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 music of ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
... swarm the plaining ghosts Like those on Virgil's shore— A wilderness of faces dim, And pale ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville
... parental care, Parental watchfulness, avail'd not now. But in the young survivor's throbbing brow, And wandering eyes, delirious fever burn'd; And all night long from side to side she turn'd, Piteously plaining like a wounded dove, With now and then the murmur—"She won't move"— And lo! when morning, as in mockery, bright Shone on that pillow, passing strange the sight— That young head's raven hair was streak'd with white! ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various |
