tristful
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In the first, and in the new reading: Heaven's face glows with tristful visage; and, Heaven's face is thought-sick.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
A marsh it makes, which has the name of Styx, This tristful brooklet, when it has descended Down to the foot of the malign gray shores.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful Queen; For tears do stop the floodgates of her eyes.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William
They took me to the county jail My tristful Kate pursuing, And all the way she sobb’d and cried ‘Oh! what have I been doing?’
From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various
Again prevailed the tristful dirge of the pines.
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart