All 3 Uses of
dismal
in
Leaves of Grass
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Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing
in the Great Dismal Swamp,
There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous
moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree;†Chpt 10 *dismal = depressing or gloomy
- O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!†
Chpt 19
- This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,
An unceasing death-bell tolls there.†Chpt 32dismalest = worst
Definition:
of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)