David replies: " While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept.

" I wept for 39 hours.

They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return ; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.

: Or weep as I could once have wept o ' er many a vanish'd scene ,-

Early in the fifth century AD Claudian, in his poem, On the Fourth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius, Book VIII, rhapsodizes on the conquests of the emperor Theodosius I, declaring that the Orcades ran red with Saxon slaughter ; Thule was warm with the blood of Picts ; ice-bound Hibernia wept for the heaps of slain Scots.

My soul was in an agony ; I wept, I prayed, and said, " Now, Lord, if there is mercy for me, let me find it ," and it really seemed to me that I could almost lay hold of the Saviour, and realize a reconciled God, All of a sudden, such a fear of the devil fell upon me that it really appeared to me that he was surely personally there, to seize and drag me down to hell, soul and body, and such a horror fell on me that I sprang to my feet and ran to my mother at the house.

Describing his confirmation, when he as 12 year old, Padre Pio said that he " wept with consolation " whenever he thought of that day because " I remember what the Most Holy Spirit caused me to feel that day, a day unique and unforgettable in all my life!

How I wept!

Barbellion sums up his life in one of the last entries in The Journal of a Disappointed Man: " I am only twenty-eight, but I have telescoped into those few years a tolerably long life: I have loved and married, and have a family ; I have wept and enjoyed, struggled and overcome, and when the hour comes I shall be content to die.

" Smith reportedly wept on the air when discussing this article, which he called " so profoundly hurtful I didn't know what to do.

Lest the Lord of the Vineyard's mercy be questioned, the allegory later records that " the Lord of the vineyard wept, and said unto the servant: What could I have done more for my vineyard ?...

So long will I upon this much wept tomb,

On the way my camel knelt down for it was the weakest among all the other camels and so I wept.

I wept and swallowed my own tears … And I cursed the fate that bound me to him … Yet even as I cursed and condemned, the tears rose.

And hitherto most of us had been able to control our sorrow ; but now when we saw him drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast ; so that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the thought of my own calamity in having to part from such a friend.

Even as he was uncompromising toward Russia's battlefield enemies, he also rejected any fraternization with the capitalist Allied powers: he reportedly wept when he learned of official negotiations for assistance.

Fulcher of Chartres says " The Franks wept, the Syrians, and even the Saracens who saw it grieved also.

Upon hearing that Orage had also signed, Gurdjieff wept.

In the novel after his death Cao Cao could not find his body and wept because of this, furthermore he expressed sorrow that Dian Wei who was talented died, while he couldn't feel as much sorrow for his son and nephew who also died in the battle.

Thinking he would die, Ecgberht wept in repentance as he recalled his past sins, and he prayed that God spare him long enough to allow him to atone for the ill deeds of his youth, and he also vowed to remain on perpetual pilgrimage from his homeland of Britain, reciting the Psalter daily and fasting frequently.

Another biblical allusion is seen when Absalom requests that his son's name be Peter — the name of one of Jesus's disciples ; among Peter's better-known traits is a certain impulsiveness ; also, after Christ's arrest, he denied knowing Jesus three times, and later wept in grief over this.

When he entered, she appeared no longer to know him, for whom she previously had wept.

A path known as the ' Weeping or Mourning Path ' runs upstream from the Annick ( previously Annack or Annock Water ) Ford and this is where the Earl's widow is said to have wept as she later followed the trail of blood left behind as his panicked horse took him away from Bridgend.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

He threw himself upon the ground, wept aloud and cried " Mother!

Gee wept as he was placed on the chair until the captain of the guards told him to " Brace up!

) Then ` Umar wept and exclaimed: " O my Lord, I spare no effort except in what escapes my power!

`` I am.

Now, are you going to take me or am I supposed to walk ''??

I am with you, of course, Tomas ''.

And Hank Maguire added, `` So am I, Tom ''.

You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.

I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.

`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.

I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.

I am concerned here, however, with the Northern liberal's attitude toward the South.

I should like, by the way, to make it clear that I am not using the word `` Persians '' carelessly.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.

I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.

I am not a philosopher.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.