(35 quotes found)
“A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, "I pour out my heart in songFor the summer that soon shall be."But deep in the shady wood,Another bird sang, "I pourMy heart on the solemn solitudeFor the springs that return no more."”
George William Curtis
“Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.”
Bible
“It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.”
Mark Twain
“And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.”
“Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.”
“There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.”
Dante Alighieri
“I lament for UAPB because they're in that situation. We were in that very same situation, and we had to leave at 7 o'clock to go to Hammond and play the same day. We are all experiencing discomfort with hotel accommodations. Believe me, I don't like traveling the day of the game. Traveling the day of the game is a huge inconvenience for a football team.”
Johnny Thomas
“And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.”
“And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? / Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.”
“They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.”
