painsong
English
Etymology
pain + song
Noun
painsong (plural painsongs)
- (poetic, rare) A cry or feeling of pain and distress.
- 1993, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, These are My Rivers, New Directions, →ISBN, page 100:
- Love's true willsong / Love's low plainsong / Too sweet painsong
- 2011, Dennis Kolb, Never Take Advice from an Unscarred Man, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
- I tried to keep my hand high to stop my strong heart from pumping me dry, while I worked on the second stanza of my painsong. Nature had been kind enough to pop the finger like a ripe grape to take the pressure off.
- 2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:
- The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.
- 2022, Linda LeGarde Grover, The Sky Watched, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
- I'm undersized and quiet, mousy you think / and it irritates you to see me puffing my mouse cheeks / while I read at my desk. You don't know it's my teeth / my teeth a painsong accompanying what I do