Oh, tell them all the agony I bear in banishment, That she may share my sorrow, and my foe the King relent.

I expressed my sorrow.

You loved me, Jenny Allen, My sorrow made me wise;

Alas, my sorrow!

I trow not, if my sorrow were thereby No whit less, only the more friendless I. And more, when bards tell tales, were it not worse

If I had manumitted her, carried her abroad, and legally married her, I should have no remorse mingled with my sorrow for her loss.

The love which me so cruelly tormenteth So pleasing is in my extreamest paine, That, all the more my sorrow it augmenteth, The more I love and doe embrace my bane.

You will conceive my sorrow for the loss of my mother, of the best mother.

In this mishap, that I will give him thankes, That will let foorth my sorrow-wounded soule From out this goale of lamentation.

"Much as I should glory in benefiting mankind, I could not by any effort or sacrifice ameliorate the condition of these poor people, although I would willingly do anything in my power to testify my sorrow for their wretched destitution.

For many days past my soul has been filled with such gladness, that if God, either for our sins or for some other reason, according to the mysteries of His just judgment, does not permit that army to be broken in our hands, my sorrow will be the same as when one loses, not a good thing hoped for, but one gained and captured.

I owe the greatest thanks to God, at the same time that my own loss is heavy and my sorrow infinite.

The angels were exceedingly rejoiced at this information; but they perceived that I was sorrowful, and asked the cause of my sorrow.

My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone.

Fire flew out of my eyes, but it did not prevent my intention; I soon came within shot, when, leveling my piece, I observed to my sorrow, that even the flint had sprung from the cock by the violence of the shock I had just received.

but there lies the source of my disappointment, ofyesof my sorrow!

I visit thy grave and bedew it with tears, To share in my sorrow, no Edward appears.

God [i.e. the absolute] who here in me aims at what I now temporally miss, not only possesses in the eternal world the goal after which I strive, but comes to possess it even through and because of my sorrow.

And throughout these days of my sorrow and toil, Through these nights of my loneliness, darkness and rain Stars wondrous and radiant, I give back to you, Your ethereal fancies again!

I can say, to my Sorrow, the present Practice is very unfair, when to look back is Death; and it may be said of our Beauties, as a great Poet did of Bullets, 'They kill and wound like Parthians as they fly.' I submit this to your Animadversion; and am, for the little while I have left, Your humble Servant, the languishing Philanthus.

"It is a part of my life, and will be my sorrow as long as I live.

As my songs are born of my sorrow, so my sorrow was born of my love; and love, and sorrow, and song, such as they are, are of your making.

"I have but a brief while to stay behind," she said, "and my sorrow will be less, to know that you have ever been a good son to me.

* SONGS (1822) 1 Oh, fair cradle of my sorrow, Oh, fair tomb of peace for me, Oh, fair town, my last good-morrow, Last farewell I say to thee!

"But if I am forgiven for this year, nothing seems to me too much to give up to the Great Shepherd to show my sorrow.