Careful Words

wounded (n.)

wounded (adj.)

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Come, ye Disconsolate.

  I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Old Testament: Zechariah xiii. 6.

A needless Alexandrine ends the song,

That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 156.

  A wounded spirit who can bear?

Old Testament: Proverbs xviii. 14.

Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee

And cherish'd thine image for years;

Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,

In secret, in silence, and tears.

Mrs. (David) Porter: Thou hast wounded the Spirit.