Tears

"Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!"

"There are bitter tears in human flesh."

"That which matches my tears hurts my heart alike."

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair."

"Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts."

"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."

"The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay."

"Sunt lacrymæ rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt."

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

"When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep."

"Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone."