dolesome

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

From Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Field, Roswell Martin

Ah! it’s a dolesome change from Sir Murray to Sir Brian yonder at the end, and worse still, to your father, as wouldn’t put nothing on but a breast-piece and back-piece and a steel cap.”

From The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War by Fenn, George Manville

His eyes cast down, his forehead shorn had he   Of all its boldness, and he said, with sighs,   "Who has denied to me the dolesome houses?"

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