Meanings of doleful song in inglés

She heard a tuneless voice in the kitchen lifted up in a doleful song:

He is not walking abroad to his panpipe's doleful song, like a shepherd wandering with his flocks.

Squalid poverty glared through the broken window-panes, and want seemed clattering her doleful song on the flying clapboards and crazy casements.

Overhead in the bare tops of the scrub oaks that covered the prairie oasis, the February wind sang a shrill and doleful song.

"Upon my soul, Nancy, that is a doleful song."