dolesome

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A dolesome thing," he said; "but my mother was wont to sing it to the virginals.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter

Thus we descended into the fourth chasm,   Gaining still farther on the dolesome shore   Which all the woe of the universe insacks.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Straight all the mother in her soul awakes, And, owning her Ulysses, thus she speaks; 'Comest thou, my son, alive, to realms beneath, The dolesome realms of darkness and of death!

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

So cherished, I shall never die— Pray, therefore, spare your dolesome praises, Your elegies and plaintive cries, For I shall fertilize no daisies!

From Hoosier Lyrics by Field, Eugene

And now begin the dolesome notes to grow   Audible unto me; now am I come   There where much lamentation strikes upon me.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth