piteous

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They have the acute feeling for country sights & sounds at which Anglo-Saxon poets are supposed to excel: for them the air often seems freesia-sweet, Piteous, to eye and ear, as a lamb's bleat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Piteous weeping wears away her cheeks: but no more piteous than Odysseus’ tears, cloaked as they were, now, from the company.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Piteous indeed he looked, white and ill as a man who has received a knock-down blow.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram

Piteous fate—too long to live, Piteous end for a friend of yore; Was it too much of a boon to give A merciful death on the nearer shore?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Whatso thou mayst see, Piteous as it may seem to thee, Heed not nor hearken! bear me forth, As though nought else were aught of worth.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William