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Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.
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Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slop of Years!
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Heav’n, that knows The weakness of our natures, will forgive, Nay, must applaud love’s debt, when decent paid: Nor can the bravest mortal blame the tear Which glitters on the bier of fallen worth.
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Hence these tears. [Lat., Hinc illae lacrymae.]
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Her eye did seem to labour with a tear, Which suddenly took birth, but overweigh’d With its own weight, swelling, dropp’d upon her bosom, Which, by reflection of her light, appear’d As nature meant her sorrow for an ornament.
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Her tears, like drops of molten lead, With torment burn the passage to my heart.
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Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
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Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature’s mark to know an honest heart by.
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Hide thy tears,–I do not bid thee not to shed them,–it were easier to stop Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart.
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How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!
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How, thro’ her tears, with pale and trembling radiance, The eye of beauty shines, and lights her sorrows! As rises o’er the storm some silver star, The seaman’s hope, and promise of his safety.
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I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
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I cannot weep, for all my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart; Nor can my tongue unload my heart’s great burden, For selfsame wind that I should speak withal Is kindling coals that fires all my breast And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.
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I could perceive with joy, a silent show’r Run down his silver beard.
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I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc’d me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.
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I found her on the floor In all the storm of grief; yet beautiful! Sighing such a breath of sorrow, that her lips, Which late appear’d like buds, were now o’er-blown! Pouring forth tears, at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown’d The wrath of heaven, and quench’d the mighty ruin.
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I had not so much of man in me, And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.
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I weep, ’tis true; but Machiavel, I swear They’re tears of vengeance; drops of liquid fire! So marble weeps, when flames surround the quarry, And the pil’d oaks spout forth such scalding bubbles, Before the general blaze.
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I wish’d but for a single tear, As something welcome, new and dear, I wish’d it then, I wish it still, Despair is stronger than my will.
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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