A Lincoln Elegy
sorrow strikes something
deep down in melancholy
dismal tears. heavy‑
hearted funeral
rites, black-bemoaned mourning, sobs
sunk in sighing and
silence. pitiful
violent lamentation.
loud weeping bewails
weeping’s lament of
weeping. depression deplores
anguish, deplores the
deep-grieved regret of
pain of mind, passionate pain,
regret afflicted
with tender-hearted,
moving compassion. downcast
sympathy casts sad
obscurity, the
gloom of midnight, a sad shades’
gloomy tenderness,
full of pity. soul-
wept dejection, cloudiness,
grief-heavy total
darkness, serious
gloom of a partial forest.
the cloudy of mind
sunk in mind-gloom, the
night’s somber affliction mourns
burdensome distress.
extreme anguish of
body, extreme anguish of
mind. harassed by the
silent Almighty,
weighed down by torture, humble
suffering, dull shades
of deep prostration,
loud, oppressive misery,
plaintive disaster,
a calamity
of trouble and affliction,
a mournful wailing
of calamity.
distressing humility—
mute grief, eloquent.
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