And he, a marble to her tears, is washed with them, but relents not.
Did he break into tears?
In great measure.
A kind overflow of kindness: there are no
faces truer than those that are so washed.
Much Ado AboubNothing. Actl. Sc. 1. L. 24.
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Othello. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 256.
One, whose subdu'd eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum.
Othello. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 348.
Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt
tears,
Sham'd their aspect with store of childish drops.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 154.
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
Advantaging their loan with interest
Of ten times double gain of happiness.
Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 321.
If the boy have not a woman's gift
To rain a shower of commanded tears,
An onion will do well for such a shift.
Taming of theShrew. Induction. Sc. 1. L. 124.
Then fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
Titus Andronicus. Act III- Sc. 1. L. 111.
Eye-offending brine.
Twelfth Night. Actl.
Sc. 1. L. 30.
Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to
fill it with my tears: if the wind were down, I
could drive the boat with my sighs.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 3. L.
57.
n I so lively acted with my tears
That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,
Wept bitterly.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. Sc. 4. L.
174.
The silver key of the fountain of tears.
Shelley—Two Fragments to Music.
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears,
Groping our way along the downward slope of
Years!
R. H. Stoddard—Hymn to the Beautiful. L.
.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depths of some divine despair.
| author = Tennyson
| work = The Princess. Canto IV. L. 21.
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.
| author = Tennyson
| work = Tithonus. St. 5.
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.
| author = Frederick Tennyson
| work = The Golden City. Pt. I.
The big round tears run down his dappled face;
He groans in anguish.
Thomson—Seasons. Autumn. L. 454.
The tears of the young who go their way, last a
day;
But the grief is long of the old who stay.
Trowbrddgb—A Home Idyll. 15.
Sunt lacrymse rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
Tears are due to human misery, and human
sufferings touch the mind.
Vergil—Æneid. I. 462.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire—A Philosophical Dictionary. Tears.
When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep,
Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.
Charles Wesley—On an Infant.
| seealso = (See also Jones)
| topic = Tears
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| text = <poem>Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
Wordsworth—Laodamia.
Lorenzo! hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh?
Or studied the philosophy of tears?—
Hast thou descended deep into the breast,
And seen their source? If not, descend with me,
And trace these briny riv'lets to their springs.
Young—Night' Thoughts. Night V. L. 516.
TEMPERANCE
(See also Drinking, Intemperance)
