When masters bind a slave with cruel chain, And keep him hope-forlorn in bondage pent, Use tames his temper to imprisonment, And hardly would he fain be free again.

Lo, Thou alone art good: let Thy supreme Pity my state of evil cleanse and hide So near to death, so far from God, forlorn.

The king could not help smiling, and supposing him to be totally deranged, allowed him to be sent with presents to his mother, for no harm, he thought, could possibly be apprehended from one so forlorn in mind.

And thus he cried, in look forlorn, "This foe is not of mortal born; A furious elephant in fight, A very mountain to the sight; No warrior of the human race, That ever wielded spear or mace, Alone this dragon could withstand, Or live beneath his conquering brand!"

Still pursued and hunted like a wild beast, and still flying from his enemies, the small retinue which remained with him at last left him, and he was left alone, dejected, destitute, and truly forlorn.

And like the tree that, robb'd of sun and showers, Mourns desolate withouten leaf or sap, So poor Cornelia, late bereft of love, Sits sighing, hapless, joyless, and forlorn.

There was no moon, but through the starlight she saw a man's figure among the shrubs below, sitting with bent head and hidden face in the forlorn attitude of one shut out from the music, light, and gayety that reigned within.

As Amy took her place that day she looked forlorn, and when her pupil came her only welcome was a reproachful "You are very late, sir.

Ah, it was capital fun to play the forlorn exile, study English, and flirt with my cousin.

If I could set some of the forlorn souls in my parish beside the happier creatures who weep over imaginary woes as they are painted by his eloquent lips, that brilliant scene would be better than any sermon.

There, before that vast ocean of eyes, some college rowdies threw out a large white flag, with a drawing of a most forlorn Indian girl on it.

There for a time, her heart all confusion, her mind darkened, we must leave her; various courses before her, and as yet without resolution to choose among them; a lost spirit, borne on the eddies of the storm; fearless and self-reliant, but with no star to guide her on her dark, malign, and forlorn way.

Lost or forlorn, to me she was right deere:

He was disgusted with his bad luck, but nurtured a desperate hopethe forlorn hope that deceives all gamblersthat he should retrieve his losses on some future occasion, which he eagerly looked for and, one might say, demanded.

The "Rans de Vaches," the most celebrated of all local airs, is tame and commonplace,unmelodious, to all ears but those of the Swiss "forlorn in a foreign land.

No more with wonted humour gay, But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn.

You will wonder, then, that Mr. Paul Wimple should have blushed and struggled and died in the forlorn little "Athenaeum," and that Sally should sit down in her loneliness and "that fright of a delaine" to wait for customers that came not, when in their old friends' house were comfortable mansions, and in their old friends' hearts tearful kisses and welcome free as air.

And so they passed for mere acquaintances; and there were some who saidPhilip Withers among themthat "that plausible Golden Farmer, young Blount, had treated the forlorn thing shabbily.

Even the sorrows I have borne, Leavin' me lonely an' forlorn An' hurt an' bruised an' sick at heart, In life's great plan have had a part.

I would compel them to understand that what I offered was a forlorn chance of averting a civil war, and that if they refused my offer they would be left to themselvesnot to stamp out a spark of revolution, but to subdue a roaring furnace.

In a way this gave me an advantage, but it was a forlorn enough sort of advantage in view of the unknown dangers by which I was surrounded.

And Bagdad's banners trampled and forlorn.

40 With age she fades, each lover flies; Contemned, forlorn, she pines and dies.

But his thoughts brooded over his forlorn and desperate condition; and the gloom on his countenance betrayed the uneasiness of his mind.

His forlorn and curiously patched habiliments would have contested the point of attraction with the ordinary eloquence of that period.