All 9 Uses
lament
in
The Life and Death of King Richard III
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- Set down, set down your honourable load,—If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,—Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament Th' untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.†
Scene 1.2lament = express grief or regret
- Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost, To hear the lamentations of poor Anne, Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son, Stabb'd by the self-same hand that made these wounds!†
Scene 1.2lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
- —Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load, Taken from Paul's to be interred there; And still, as you are weary of this weight, Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.†
Scene 1.2lament = express grief or regret
- But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave; And then return lamenting to my love.†
Scene 1.2lamenting = expressing grief or regret
- My pretty cousins, you mistake me both; I do lament the sickness of the king, As loath to lose him, not your father's death; It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.†
Scene 2.2lament = express grief or regret
- —If you will live, lament; if die, be brief, That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's; Or, like obedient subjects, follow him To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.†
Scene 2.2
- Give me no help in lamentation; I am not barren to bring forth complaints: All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, That I, being govern'd by the watery moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!†
Scene 2.2lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
- I am your sorrow's nurse,
And I will pamper it with lamentation.Scene 2.2 * - If yet your gentle souls fly in the air And be not fix'd in doom perpetual, Hover about me with your airy wings And hear your mother's lamentation!†
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Definitions:
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(lament) to express grief or regret
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music -- as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.