Wept Quotes
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She came to the village church, And sat by a pillar alone; An angel watching an urn Wept over her, carved in stone.
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More Wept Quotes
I did find Calypso but only once, far in the depths of the very wildest of Canadian dark woods, near those high, cold, moss-covered swamps. ... I felt as if I were in the presence of superior beings who loved me and beckoned me to come. I sat down beside them and wept for joy.
john muir— letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr (1866); published as "The Calypso Borealis, Botanical Enthusiasm" in Boston Recorder, 21 December 1866; republished in Bonnie Johanna Gisel, Kindred & Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr (2001), page 41(Muir's first published writing, concerning the orchid Calypso.)
The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay; Sat by his fire, and talked the night away, wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 155.
My mother groaned! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud Like a fiend hid in a cloud.
william blake— 1794 Songs of Experience,'Infant Sorrow'.
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said,O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee,OAbsalom, my son, my son!
Bible (Old Testament)— Samuel18:33.
The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: 'If this were only cleared away,' They said,'it would be grand!'
— 1871 Tweedledee. Through the Looking-Glass, ch.4, 'Tweedledum and Tweedledee'.
And the Lord Rupert looked at his work, and even he saw that it was a load of crap, but this was the enterprise culture and it sold millions so it was good. And on the same basis he decided to take over the television too, and the earth itself wept, and little robins vomited, and cuddly furry animals threw themselves under trains, and the whole thing was filmed by Sky Channel for a horror nature programme, and the most awful thing of all was that this was just the beginning.
attila the stockbroker— "The Bible according to Rupert Murdoch", from . Retrieved 2007-03-26.
His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
william golding— Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
Sche cam beforn the Erchebischop and fel down on hir kneys, the Erchebischop seying ful boystowsly unto hir, "Why wepist thu so, woman?" Sche, answeryng, seyde, "Syr, ye schal welyn sum day that ye had wept as sor as I."
margery kempe— She came before the Archbishop and fell down on her knees, the Archbishop saying full boisterously unto her: "Why weepest thou, woman?" She, answering, said: "Sir, ye shall wish some day that ye had wept as sore as I."Ch. 52; p. 112
When he says that in that day all his thoughts perish, or flow away, perhaps under this expression he censures the madness of princes in setting no bounds to their hopes and desires, and scaling the very heavens in their ambition, like the insane Alexander of Macedon, who, upon hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one, although soon after the funeral urn sufficed him.
— John Calvin, in his interpretation of Psalm 146 in On The Book Of Psalms (1557) as translated by Rev. James Anderson (1849)
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me, 'Pipe a song about a lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again!' So I piped. He wept to hear.
william blake— 1789 Songs of Innocence,'Introduction'.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.
Bible (Old Testament)— Genesis 37:35.
And as she wept, her tears to pearl he turned, And wound them on his arm, and for her mourned.
Christopher Marlowe— 1593 The mourner is Cupid. Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.375-6.
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He wept that he was ever born, And he had reasons.
Edwin Arlington Robinson— 1910 TheTown down the River,'Miniver Cheevy'.
His big tears, for he wept well, Turned to mill-stones as they fell. And the little children, who Round his feet played to and fro, Thinking every tear a gem, Had their brains knocked out by them.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1819 Of Fraud (ie, Lord Eldon).'The Mask of Anarchy'.
Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb."So I piped with merry cheer;"Piper, pipe that song again."So I piped; he wept to hear.
william blake— Introduction, st. 1–2
I wept that all must die —"Yet Love," I cried, "doth live, and conquer death —"And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die —Hush! for the ages call"The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!"
adelaide anne procter— "The Triumph of Time".
Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.
charles seymour robinson— P. 584. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
mary wollstonecraft— The monster to Robert Walton
When I remember againHow my Philip was slain,Never half the painWas between you twain,Pyramus and Thisbe,As then befell to me.I wept and I wailed,The tear?s down hailed,But nothing it availedTo call Philip againWhom Gib, our cat, hath slain.
john skelton— Lines 17-27.
Once I reveled in a destiny like no other joy I'd known: when the warden reading my death sentence wept.
josé martí— I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
Claude McKay— The Tropics in New York, l. 11-12
Lo! all things moving must go by. The sea lies dead. Behold, this land Sits desolate in dust beside His snow-white, seamless shroud of sand; The very clouds have wept and died, And only God is in the sky.
joaquin miller— XXXV (The Ship in the Desert (1875))
Behold who ever wept, and in his tears Was happier far than others in their smiles.
— Petrarch, The Triumph of Eternity!, line 95. (Charlemont).
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
— Frederick Tennyson, The Golden City, Part I.
But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 165.
Sighed and wept and said no more.
— Isle of Ladies. Erroneously attributed to Chaucer as Dream, line 931.
With her ankles sunken in asphodel She wept for the roses of earth which fell.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calls on the Heart, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 45.
When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.
— "Hans Gruber" in Die Hard (1988); this is often mistaken as a direct quote from more ancient sources, but this phrasing seems to have originated in this movie.
I so lively acted with my tears That my poor mistress, moved therewithal, wept bitterly.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act IV, scene 4, line 174.
