Astonishment
1. The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.
2. Dismay; consternation.
3. The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement.
4. The object causing such an emotion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
© 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
1. The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.
2. Dismay; consternation.
3. The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement.
4. The object causing such an emotion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary,
© 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
(Eugene Ionesco)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why (Sonnet XLIII)
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
