piteous
adjective
evoking or deserving pity; pathetic.
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Yea, I have knelt to the unpiteous air And knelt to gods I knew not, to remove The viewless hands whose sight I could not bear Out of the wind-blown head of her I love.
From Poems by Edward Shanks