He tells them how he became "the lovesick boy" first of one and then of another.
In the opening scene lovesick maidens in clinging gowns, playing mandolins, sing plaintively of their love for Bunthorne.
The Guards duly arrive, and are hardly settled down when Bunthorne passes by in the act of composing a poem, followed by the twenty lovesick maidens.
It is true that Francis does not come before you like a whining Celadon--'tis true he has not learned, like a lovesick swain of Arcadia, to sigh forth his amorous plaints to the echo of caves and rocks.
The girls talked shudderingly about it as they sat upon the men's knees in the long summer evenings, and a lovesick fellow from inland had made up a ballad about it, which Gustav sang to his concertina.
You mad little devil, to jump straight into the sea in the middle of winter like a lovesick woman!
Life up those looks that cherish Locrine's heart, That I may freely view that roseall face, Which so intangled hath my lovesick breast.
The golden tresses of her dainty hair, Which shine like rubies glittering with the sun, Have so entrapt poor Locrine's lovesick heart, That from the same no way it can be won.
I was sick of it all: just sick and discouraged and homesick and lovesick and just sick.
She came back to me tucking a piece of paper into her bosom with a laughing deprecation anent "these lovesick boys who insist upon writing what they fear to say!
They were not sentimental; even Isaiah, with what Captain Shadrach termed his "lovesick imagination," would not have called them so.
In fluent numbers, and in pleasant veins, I rob both sea and earth of all their state, To praise her parts: I charm both time and fate, To bless the nymph that yields melovesick pains.
It was he who assured me, upon his honour, that my fair one had a very bad character, and gave me some instances which made my lovesick heart recoil.
Instructions more extraordinary were never before delivered by lovesick swain to the friend of his suit.
The lovesick youth informed the obliging young man that he loved and was beloved by a young lady of Boston, whose aunt, acting as her guardian, opposed his suit.
And in the long drawn cry there was a ring of heart's delight and lovesick longing such as I had never heard save from the nightingale lover when in the still May nights he courts his beloved.
Instead of bewailing, and sighing, and fainting like a lovesick swain, it would be better to set to work to think out some plan for rescuing your Marianna.
Antonia was too dear to me, I might say too holy, for me to go and play the part of the languishing lover and stand gazing up at her window, or to fill the role of the lovesick adventurer.
There is nothing to do except write, for I can't compose my mind to read; so I will continue recording my emotions, as French criminals do when condemned to death, or lovesick ladies when they have swallowed slow poison.
He told Dick the same thing; so there'll be no leaving us two alone in lovesick corners (can corners be lovesick?
Poor One-and-Nine was more lovesick than ever when he beheld her, and scarcely noticed the beautiful decorations in the streets.
Perhaps she will when she knows you better," he added, wishing to comfort the poor lovesick soldier.
