The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.
My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
In the bitter waves of woe,
Beaten and tossed about
By the sullen winds which blow
From the desolate shores of doubt.
Washington Gladden—Ultima Veritas.
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = Ach! aus dem Gliick entwickelt oft sich
Schmerz.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Goethe—Die Naturliche Tockter. II. 3. 17.
Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,
Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte
Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,
Derkennt euch nicht, ihrhimmlischen Machte.
Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for the morrow,—
He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
Goethe—Wilhelm Meister. Bk. II. Ch. XIII
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Gray—Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
College.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.
| author = Robert Browning Hamilton
| work = Along the
Road.
A happier lot were mine,
If I must lose thee, to go down to earth,
For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,—
Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none,
And no dear mother.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. VI. L. 530. Bryants
trans.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XXII. L. 543
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Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay
the sorrowful.
Horace—Epistles. I. 18. 89.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Jean Ingelow—Song of Old Love.
Hang sorrow, care '11 kill a cat.
Ben Jonson—Every Man in his Humour.'
Act I. Sc. 3.
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O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
Keats—Endymion. Bk. IV.
is To Sorrow
I bade good-morrow,
And thought to leave her far away behind;
But cheerly, cheerly,
She loves me dearly:
She is so constant to me, and so kind.
Keats—Endymion. Bk. IV.
How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.
Keats—Hyperion. Bk. I. L. 36.
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
Malherbe—To Cardinal Richelieu. Longfellow's Trans.
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.
Harriet Marttneau—Hymn.
A grace within his soul hath reigned
Which nothing else can bring;
Thank God for all that I have gained
By that high sorrowing.
Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe.
Moore—Anacreontic.
Ecoute, moribonde! II n'est pire douleur
Qu'un souvenir heureux dans les jour de malheur.
Listen, dying one! There is no worse sorrow
than remembering happiness in the day of
sorrow.
Alfred de Mdsset—Le Saitle. (The opposite
opinion in his Un Souvenir.)
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Con dolor rimembrando il tempo lieto.
With sorrow remembering happy times.
Petrarch—Canzone. 46.
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| topic = Sorrow
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| text = Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Pollok—Course of Time. Bk. I. L. 464.
