pathos (n.)
- bathos
- benevolence
- bitterness
- bleakness
- caring
- cheerlessness
- chord
- clemency
- commiseration
- compassion
- concern
- condolence
- depression
- discomfort
- distress
- distressfulness
- dreariness
- echo
- empathy
- favor
- feeling
- forbearance
- forgiveness
- grace
- grief
- heaviness
- heavyheartedness
- humanity
- identification
- involvement
- joylessness
- kindness
- lamentation
- leniency
- mercy
- mitigation
- mournfulness
- pain
- painfulness
- pardon
- pity
- poignancy
- quarter
- relief
- reprieve
- response
- responsiveness
- ruth
- sadness
- self-pity
- sharing
- sharpness
- sorrowfulness
- sympathy
- vibes
- woefulness
To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife,—
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.