Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally")

Song ("On Her Loving Two Equally") Glossary

subdued

adjective: tamed, or gently dominated

mourn

verb: to grieve or experience sorrow

scorn

noun: contempt or deliberate act of snubbing or ignoring

languish

verb: to become weak or feeble, often from an unpleasant or trying experience

winged god

noun: Eros (Greek) or Cupid (Roman), a minor god of love who is said to shoot people with arrows to make them fall in love. Apparently, the speaker has been shot twice.

crossed

verb: stymied, stopped, or betrayed

if it chance

prepositional phrase: archaic way of saying "if it so happens," or "by chance," or "If I am lucky."

'twixt

preposition: contracted form of "betwixt", an archaic word for "between"

fever in (my) blood

adjectival phrase: a lusting for; a feeling of passion

dart

noun: arrow; in this context referring specifically to Cupid's arrows, which inspire those they pierce to fall in love with the first person they see

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