The phrase "a sorrow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a feeling of deep distress or sadness, often in a more abstract or poetic context.
Example: "She carried a sorrow that seemed to weigh heavily on her heart."
Alternatives: "a grief" or "a sadness".
"It's a sorrow, but not a crushing sorrow.
"The heartache of burying a child is a sorrow we would not wish upon anyone.
His death in 2000 is a sorrow that recurs in "The Prodigal": March 11.
One day, perhaps, fatal anaphylaxis may become a sorrow associated with an earlier age, like dying of appendicitis or polio.
Her eyes reflected the sorrow of the nation and the world -- a sorrow we still feel today.
What you must know before you enter this domain and learn the ways of which we shall not speak in this first truth of what you are: A sorrow, a sorrow begging for home.
LOS ANGELES — After Notre Dame's 22-13 victory against Southern California on Saturday night, Fighting Irish linebacker Manti Te'o skipped off the Los Angeles Coliseum field, his heart light despite a sorrow-filled senior season.
The forecast is continually gloomy in "When the Rain Stops Falling," a sorrow-sodden family drama by Andrew Bovell that opened on Monday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
But a sorrowing empathy also infuses "Three Hotels" along with a precocious sense that the emotions that bind people and drive them apart are not easily parsed.
A smear of grey, a whiff of sorrow, a shadow of despair.
1926 "The House of a Hundred Sorrows," a 1925 Neediest Cases editorial by Edward M. Kingsbury, wins a Pulitzer.
