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Tag Name "Lamentations" (7)

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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
Aeschylus
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
Christopher Paolini
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As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.
Masiela Lusha
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
Richard Sibbes
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.
Annie Besant
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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
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
Pliny the Elder