a. (UN-1 7.)
[1775. Ash.]
1810. J. Stagg, Minstrel of the North, 183.
| And here I range the forest wild, | |
| Unwistful of relief! | |
| Assur’d no hand, but that of death, | |
| Can mitigate my grief. |
1856. Blanche Shakspeare de Trepka, Panthea, etc., 190.
| Our tears fall only on the proud, | |
| Blind moles of earth, who downward mine, | |
| Unwistful of the thunders loud, | |
| That rend in twain the loftiest pine. | |
| Ibid., 205. | |
| Unwistful of our vigils kept, | |
| To learn if all her children slept. |
1861. Ld. Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 8. So reap’d she honour of unwistful men, Roman, or Greek.
1865. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, v. What is this space, this circumstance,… that can … keep them so unwistful of each other?
1865. Abby Maria Hemenway, Mystical Rose, v. 18.
| Unwistful of the silent flow of time, | |
| Lost in the vista of a revery sublime. |
