Eliza Cook: Poems Glossary

Eliza Cook: Poems Glossary

brink

on the edge of

wail

to cry

billow

to fill with air and swell

lullaby

a song to send a child to sleep

desolate

miserable and sad

mock

to ridicule

plague

a contagious disease spreading

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