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  • I mean, people judging what's an appropriate means of disciplining children is one thing (even that can get carried to silly extremes, but I think it's legitimate for people to be concerned about it), but judging sorrow's another thing.

    intertribal: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. intertribal 2010

  • (Soundbite of song, "Spring and Fall to a Young Child") Ms. MERCHANT: (Singing) No matter, child, the name, sorrow's springs are all the same, they're all the same.

    Natalie Merchant: Globe-Spanning Poetry 2010

  • The spark of anger flickers in sorrow's ashes, the mind is hard with anger, soft with pain:

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Art dumb? silence availeth not in trouble; nay, for the heart that fain would know all must show its curiosity even in sorrow's hour.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Never let happiness appear in sorrow's guise, nor, when thy fortune smiles, pretend she frowns!

    Medea 2008

  • Ah! thine is the advice of one outside sorrow's pale.

    Heracles 2008

  • 'Tis to Hecuba I bring my bitter news; no easy task is it for mortal lips to speak smooth words in sorrow's hour.

    Hecuba 2008

  • 'Tis to Hecuba I bring my bitter news; no easy task is it for mortal lips to speak smooth words in sorrow's hour.

    Hecuba 2008

  • For whoso is not used to taste of sorrow's cup, though he bears it, yet it galls him when he puts his neck within the yoke; far happier would he be dead than alive, for life of honour reft is toil and trouble.

    Hecuba 2008

  • Bitter for me it is to see the limbs of my dead sons, and yet a welcome sight withal, because I shall behold the unexpected day after sorrow's cup was full.

    The Suppliants 2008

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