Alfred, Lord Tennyson on Sadness
1809–1892 England
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That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Tears, Idle Tears (1850)
O sorrow, wilt thou rule my blood,
Be sometimes lovely, like a bride,
And put thy harsher moods aside,
If thou wilt have me wise and good.
In Memoriam A.H.H (1849)
Smit with exceeding sorrow unto Death.
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.