The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“How oft do they their silver bowers leave
To come to succour us that succour want!”
Canto 8, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II
“Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest”
London: A Poem (1738) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/london2.html, lines 166–167
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
“The careful pilot of my proper woe.”
Epistle to Augusta, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“In man's most dark extremity
Oft succour dawns from Heaven.”
Canto I, stanza 20.
The Lord of the Isles (1815)
Vão os anos decendo, e já do Estio
Há pouco que passar até o Outono;
A Fortuna me faz o engenho frio,
Do qual já não me jacto nem me abono;
Os desgostos me vão levando ao rio
Do negro esquecimento e eterno sono...
Stanza 9, lines 1–6 (tr. William Julius Mickle)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto X
“Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.”
Aus Meinen Grossen Schmerzen (Out of My Great Woe), st. 1
“Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.”
Andromeda; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Canto XXXIII, lines 16–18 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“With living colours give my verse to glow:
The sad memorial of a tale of woe!”
Introduction, lines 35-36.
The Shipwreck (1762)
