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Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain.
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  Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower The moping owl does to the moon complain.

thomas gray

— 1751Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.9-10.

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For I have a song to sing,O!? It is sung to the moon By a love-lorn loon, Who fled from the mocking throng,O! It's the song of a merryman moping mum, Whose soul was sad and whose glance was glum Who sipped no sup and who craved no crumb, As he sighed for the love of a ladye!

Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert

— 1888   Jack Point's song, TheYeomen of the Guard.

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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping

piet hein

— A Psychological Tip

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moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

john milton

— Michael shows  Adam a vision of what will happen before the Flood. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.485-6.

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moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness.

john milton

— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XI, line 485 (1667; 1674).

Tags: melancholy, moonstruck, madness

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