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.
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)
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.
— 1954 Lord of the Flies, ch.12.
So lovely fair was Hero,Venus'nun, As Nature wept, thinking she was undone.
Christopher Marlowe— 1593 Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.45-6.
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
Abraham Cowley— Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,And trembled with fear at your frown!
thomas dunn english— Ben Bolt, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
We have lived and loved togetherThrough many changing years;We have shared each other's gladness,And wept each other's tears.
charles jeffreys— We have lived and loved together, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Oh would I were a boy again,When life seemed formed of sunny years,And all the heart then knew of painWas wept away in transient tears!When every tale Hope whispered then,My fancy deemed was only truth.Oh, would that I could know again,The happy visions of my youth.
mark lemon— Oh would I were a Boy again, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.
khalil gibran— A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
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
It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.
carole king— Tapestry (Tapestry (1971))
He went out . . . and wept bitterly.
william tyndale— Matthew 26:75
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness...Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile...Not a single one but has at some time wept.
— Ch. 40 (The Outline of History (1920))
Aye, think! since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Only because you toiled and wept.
— Arturo Giovannitti, The Thinker (On Rodin's Statue).
We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.
Abraham Cowley— Abraham Cowley, Discourse concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell, Works, p. 60. (Ed. 1693). Quoted in house of Commons by Sir Robert Peel repelling an attack by William Cobbett.
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))
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
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— Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in Ionica (London: Smith, Elder, 1858) p. 7.
Ah, ah, Qytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed, , And both turned into flowers for the earth's Her tears, to the wind-flower, his blood, to the rose.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lament for Adonis, Stanza 6.
Jesus wept.
— Who: Frank Cotton
— Source: Hellraiser.
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds, and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him he returned this answer: "Do you not think it is a matter worthy of lamentation that where there is such a vast multitude of them we have not yet conquered one?"
— Plutarch, On the Tranquillity of the Mind. One world is not sufficient; he [Alexander the Great] fumes unhappy in the narrow bounds of this earth. Quoted from Juvenal—Satires. X; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
