In vain I try, with livelier air, To wake the breathing string; That voice of other times is there, And saddens all I sing.
Night waneth fast, the morning star Saddens with light the glimmering sea, Whose waves shall soon to realms afar Waft me from hope, from love, and thee.
It saddens one, I know not why, to sit beside a river and see the water flowing down with never a pause.
It saddens one still more to watch the current of human life in this great thoroughfare and feel that, as it is now, so it was a generation ago, and so it will be a generation hence.
Even in the gayest hours of festival, it appalls and saddens all hearts.
But grand as is Egypt's past, and varied as her fortunes have been, it may surely be said that never during all her misfortunes has she occupied a position as deplorable as that which saddens the traveller of today.
Nothing saddens a woman more than to have her vanity repressed; I have never seen an ill-dressed woman who was amiable or good-humored.
Though there is absolutely no reason to tremble, all present do tremble, and the darkness, emblem of death, saddens them.
There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
It saddens me to see good fellows trampling one another down, growing hard and ungenerous.
I shall not see their trees again this year, at least, and the thought saddens me.
Good-bye again, dear friend; it is a word which always saddens me.
You 're right on both accounts to hold your tongue; A sad tale saddens doubly, when 't is long.
Travelling along, the very brightness of the moon saddens his heart, And the sound of a bell through the evening rain severs his viscera in twain.
They are a class peculiar to those ranks and countries in which shines and saddensthat gay and unhappy thing--a woman without a home!
Oh, the admiration that does not spring from holy and profound sources of emotion--how it saddens us or disgusts!
In Cairo's crowded streets The impatient Merchant, wondering, waits in vain, And Mecca saddens at the long delay.
The hectic of the dying year saddens and depresses him, for is it not an emblem to him of the death of his race?
Eve saddens into night, and nearly all the phrases satirised are borrowed from Coleridge's own poetry, not from that of Lamb or Lloyd.
She says this with a sigh; then she pauses, and a shade saddens her face.
There was something in her eyes, in the hurried glance he got at them, that saddens Fabian.
But what really saddens me is that I am by no means sure he likes me best.
Heavy they roll their fleecy world along, And the sky saddens with the gathered storm.
Whatever saddens you saddens me: where you love, I love; when you mourn, I mourn.
Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit--doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.
And for me, too, it saddens and spoils our last few days together.
Of such company am I, also, but it saddens me not at all.
The thought of asparagus and powdered glass saddens me.
Far hence, where, most severe, Bleak winter well nighsaddens all the year, Their infant growth began.
Far hence, where most severe Bleak Winter well-nigh saddens all the year, Their infant growth began.
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