A voice melodious spake in every line, But from sad pleasure sorrow fresh I learned: Strange was the music of the Florentine.
My silver streets that never wear by change Of years: forget the years, and pain, and wrong, And every sorrow reigning men among.
It was his first sorrow and it was so heavy, so oppressively heavy.
You, my noble, gentle one, with your more complex character, feel a more powerful yearning for the old patriarchal life of the desert, especially after the sorrow and loneliness which you have known in your life.
But she, though she too had suffered, had shown greater elasticity, had not counted all that sorrow for more than her human lot, such as might befall any large household.
She now knew what he had suffered, a sorrow almost too great for one of his years to bear.
And that was his great content, after the sorrow which he had suffered a whole day long: that he had not loved Papa for nothing, that he was the child of the man whom he loved.
Every thing is in the greatest Confusion, and nothing but fear and sorrow appears upon every Countenance.
The last tender parting Kiss is given an hundred times over, and her Tears bring his Handkerchief out of his Pocket, in deep Sorrow to leave his dear Betty and his poor Babes.
No, I will not be unhappy; happy I suppose I can never be, but I have strength and courage, and a will to rise above this sorrow which once crushed me to the ground.
I was young, I had a long life before me; it could not be but that this great sorrow would pass away.
His life had struggles, many and crushing; but with a noble fortitude he pursued his calling when sorrow held down his heart and wellnigh had the power to palsy his hand.
Singularly enough, my great sorrow did not come back to me in those pauses of action.
Sorrow in Kashima is as fortunate as Love because there is nothing to weaken it save the flight of Time.
Revere, his eyes red at the rims and his nose very white, went into Bobby's tent to write a letter to Papa Wick which should bow the white head of the ex-Commissioner of Chota-Buldana in the keenest sorrow of his life.
Earlier still--more than two years after Wolf's departure--tidings closely associated with the sorrow inflicted through her John had saddened her.
Her greatest sorrow had been that she was not permitted to see and embrace him, and the knowledge that another filled the place in his heart which belonged to her; but lesser troubles had also gnawed at her soul.
This sorrow was something sacred, which belonged to her and to her alone.
Had she obediently gone to the convent, he might have spared himself and her the sorrow of holding her so rigidly aloof from his person.
Thus woe on woe, and at the same time the painfully paralyzing feeling of the hostility of Fate had been evoked from its surges and, instead of happiness, they had brought sorrow and suffering.
But no light came to O-kis-ko; Still the burden pressed upon him, And a pall of hopeless yearning Wrapped his soul in voiceless sorrow As he gazed upon the maiden With death's mysteries enfolded.
He had always been a student, and he spent the weary hours of his long confinement in that companionship which is known only to those who really love books, and to such minds they prove a panacea for sorrow and injustice.
Small wonder that "her tenderness revived," and "she cursed the hour in which she had formed the precipitate engagement with Jeremiah, and oftentimes she shed over that album tears of heartfelt sorrow and regret.
There was no room in his happy composition for aught of sorrow or sadness, and a quick and merry wit always extricated him from every embarrassing position or perplexing dilemma.
Margaret Hall is a different woman to the scold of the neighbourhood she once was; touched and softened by the two purifying angels, Sorrow and Love.
Tom, with his excess of sympathy with his little sister's wrongs, checked back any expression which Bessy might have uttered of sorrow and regret.
If I had not witnessed her previous emotion, I could never have guessed that she had any hidden sorrowor pain from her manner; tranquil, self-restrained as usual.
After I was duly rested and refreshed, I took my leave; for I, too, had my quieter anxieties about the sorrow in the Müller family.
This sad accident of Mary's did her a great deal of good, although it cost her so much sorrow at first.
But the season of sorrow and of suffering is now past, and Jesus, the Son of the Most High, is receiving the just reward of his sufferings and humiliation.
Was not the anguish of their souls, under a sense of their sins, equal to the exquisite sorrow of those who bitterly bewail the death of their first-born?
It is therefore quite clear, that it was fromsorrow of soul, and not pains of body, Jesus then suffered.
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto his sorrow, which was done unto him, wherewith the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce anger.
Though its attendants were few, yet the tears of affection and love bedewed his mangled body, and the voice of lamentation and sorrow reverberate through this solemn vault of death.
Therefore, when sorrow shall becloud Thy fair serenest day, Weep not: thy sighs shall be allow'd To chase the storm away.
Yet it may be questioned whether the sketches of external scenery in these brief essays of his, or the embodiments of internal thought in the pictures of Sorrow and the other allegorical wights, are most striking.
So is it, dear Tony, go where you will; there is no heart without its weary load, no spirit without that touch of sorrow that should teach submission.
The changes which work within us are not to be measured by time; a day of sorrow will do the work of years.
Well, don't ask him to stop to dinner; we have sorrow enough without seeing a doctor.
I wondered what kept you so long, Tony; for I had time to pack your trunk, and to put away all your things; and when it was done and finished, to sit down and sorrow over your going away.
How many a care "blue water" can assuage, how many a sorrow is made bearable by the fresh breeze that strains the cordage, and the laughing waves we cleave through so fast!
Dolly shook her head, but whether in dissent or in sorrow it was not easy to say.
And neither could she ever have understood hersorrow over the great mistake in giving her such a father.
But it was not from sorrow nor joy; you sometimes do cry when you are full of delight, but--at times when I hear the right music in church, I think that is what heaven will be like.
Oh," said Carmen, "if you have had no greater love and no greater sorrow than that for a bird, your life has flowed evenly enough.
And there was the long, long sail, and the little girl was going far away from the only sorrow of her life, that was so strangely mingled with the only dear love.
And he prayed there might never come any deeper sorrow to touch her tender heart.
Sorrow has touched my white hairs," said the king.
They were overwhelmed with sorrow and knew not what to do.
Taking compassion on his sorrow they promised him whatever advantages their kingdom afforded if he would accompany them.
Amid the prayers of the Litany, the cry of sorrow resounded from all as they went out of the church; they entered the oratory of St. Laurence the Martyr, which was in the dormitory of the brethren over against them.
I am looking now through the low door of a desolate cottage, and I can discern a broken-hearted woman crooning her sorrow by the embers of a dying fire.
She laughed delightedly, for the first time since the doleful twin sisters, Sorrow and Suffering, had discovered her.
On the way he was consumed with maudlin sorrow that his beloved patron, Monsieur Ingersoll, should have forbidden him to take further part in the feast.
He knew that the absence of children had provided the only sorrow in the lives of a most devoted couple, and the thought had evidently taken a subconscious form in the mind of a woman whose faculties were bemused by cold and fear.
One day I asked myself: Why is there so much sorrow and misery in society?
In the world of sorrow in which the proletaire moves, and where nothing is known of the intentions of power, it must be said that despair prevails.
They had been married many years, and loved one another, but they had no children, and this caused them so much sorrow that they could find no pleasure but in watching the children of their neighbours.
She knew that through it her suffering and sorrow were increased; but still, in her love for the sorrowing man, she asked him to look upon her once more.
He ran quickly to the stream and leaped under its waters, wishing to destroy himself and his burden together, and so free his land from sorrow and the Plague.
If sorrow did not keep the deceased in the memory of the living, imposed self-denials did.
We had burned up our lard keg for our semi-daily fire to cook our scanty meals, and now, with a sorrow that went to our hearts, began to break up the "Hope.
On the next occasion we equaled in sincerity and naturalness the expressed sorrow of the heirs of a rich miser over his mortal remains.
It is true that the last great sorrow of his life was long felt and cherished by him as a religion, and that it entered as such into the courage with which he first confronted it.
You will have heard how our joy turned suddenly into deep sorrow by the death of my husband's mother.
But it distressed his mother, the one being in the world whom he entirely loved; and deserves remembering in the tender sorrow with which he himself remembered it.
Mr. Browning always believed that the shock and sorrow of this event had shortened his wife's life, though it is also possible that her already lowered vitality increased the dejection into which it plunged her.
They attain to the conception of suffering deity; in Baldur a god falls victim to malice and wickedness, and the sorrow of his fall takes possession of the whole of heaven.
He had discovered the cause of the sorrow which is so closely intertwined in man's life, and had divined the way in which sorrow might be overcome.
From this moment he was Buddha, Enlightened; he had the key of truth, and for himself he was assured that sorrow and evil had lost all hold on him.
It was not in the Lady Peveril's nature to hear sorrow without an attempt at consolation.
Julian, I am now a forlorn widow, whom sorrow has made selfish!
Mung against me now, for I have a family upon the earth with whom sorrow will remain, though mine should disappear because of the sign of Mung.
But Mung said: "When at the sign of Mung thy Life shall float away there will also disappear thy sorrow at forsaking it.
And while Death seems to thee as far away as the purple rim of hills; or sorrow as far off as rain in the blue days of summer, then pray to Limpang-Tung.
And it seemed to the prophet of the gods as he watched the stream run by that the Scheme was a right scheme and the gods benignant gods; yet there was sorrow in the Worlds.
It seemed that Kib was bountiful, that Mung calmed all who suffer, that Sish dealt not too harshly with the hours, and that all the gods were good; yet there was sorrow in the Worlds.
And Mung went onward with his work to sunder Life from flesh, and Mung came upon a man who became stricken with sorrow when he saw the shadow of Mung.
Pain belongs to the body, and sorrow is an experience of the soul.
Sorrow and opposition should not destroy, but only strengthen the spiritual powers.
In that light sorrow and pain may be justified, even though in themselves they are hateful.
Moreover, it is bound to other souls by love, and love always carries with it the possibility of sorrow; for sorrow is usually only love thwarted.
Along such a pathway it moves in its ascent and, in spite of all opposition, it is never permanently hindered; while sorrow and suffering continually add to its strength.
In successive years the music of the Christmas bells is heard more distinctly, the sorrow of the world becomes more audible, sympathy reaches farther.
It is not far from the truth to say that when there is no love there is no sorrow, and that the possibilities of sorrow are always increased in proportion to the perfection of being.
In the silences faces have appeared to them full of alluring entreaty, and more than one anchorite has found to his sorrow that he carried within himself the cause of his danger.
It becomes attached to other souls, and those attachments are either rudely shattered or roughly repulsed, and, consequently, the life of the soul is as full of sorrow as is a summer day of clouds.
The Christmas bells ring out their music and at first are almost hated, but they break through the shell of sorrow and let in a faint echo of the world's great suffering and the world's great joy.
Another phase of this subject is the power, which has seemed to come from outside the soul, to sustain and help those who have been called to endure bitter and long-continued sorrow and pain.
To those who know that pain and sorrow are ministers of strength and sympathy, that by them narrow horizons are widened and deserts made to blossom, human life does not seem so confused and terrible as it has sometimes been pictured.
Added to the ignominy of defeat, the wounded must have the sorrow of separating from their comrades and living or dying among perfect strangers, with whom they cannot even converse.
Private sorrow must give way before national calamity, but human nature remains the same forever.
It was also a great sorrow for me to part with the regimental colors that I had taken care of through thick and thin.
This rain is called “the tears of joy for the victor, and the tears of sorrow for the defeated;” it is also the tears of mourning for the dead comrades.
When I think of this I cannot cry out mysorrow or talk about my sentiments, because both the cry and the words become choked in my throat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
