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“To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.”

Care Grief Sorrow Comfort Draws Woe

Book:The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq

Source: The Works of Michael Drayton, Esq

“Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.”

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Author:William Somervile

“Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.”

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Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!”

Earth Joy Song Universe Heaven Voice Cry Poet Sorrow Lows Glory Singers Inward Woe Amen

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.”

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Author:John Milton

“Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us; Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us, Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill. Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow; Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow; Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow! Work with a stout heart and resolute will!”

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Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.”

Men Firsts Heart Has Beens Made Might Women Sin Sorrow Ease Paradise Woe Might Have Been

Book:Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]

“Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.”

Heart Soul Joy Share Sorrow Heavy Miserable Woe

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.”

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Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh

“The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.”

Knows Want Hands Born Sin Crime Sorrow Anger Shame Paint Woe Workshops

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”

People Way Made Justice Cities Divine Sorrow Elements Eternal Ultimate Sacred Moved Raised Intellect Abandon Architect Woe Omnipotence Forsaken

Book:The inferno

Source: The inferno

“Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.”

Knows Feelings Life Is Joy Suffering Three Enjoy Born Grief Sorrow Eternal Bliss Woe Three Times Joy Of Life Duration

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”

“A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.”

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Book:The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle

“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.”

Years Heart Littles I Can Night Turns Grief Gone Sea My Heart Sorrow Shapes Singing Bird Mercy Dear Bitter Staring Silver Pens Spells Weary Leafs Woe Shifting Wraps Cords Loveliness Racks

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!”

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Author:William Blake

“The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.”

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Book:Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

“All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto

Source: The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto

“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.”

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Author:Thomas Adams

“Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?”

Pain Mother Night Lost Tears Sorrow Losing Delight Motherhood Woe Payment Babe Infancy

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.”

“Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.”

Knows Mind Doe Pain Sleep Mankind Sorrow Physicians Woe Sweetest Patron

Book:The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations

Source: The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations