“From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands
and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”

Anacreontic.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

[Maudsley, Henry, The Pathology of Mind, Macmillan, 1895, 978-0-598-47100-0, https://books.google.com/books?id=C5QXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138, 138]

Sermon III : The Angel's Greeting
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: When man humbles himself, God cannot restrain His mercy; He must come down and pour His grace into the humble man, and He gives Himself most of all, and all at once, to the least of all. It is essential to God to give, for His essence is His goodness and His goodness is His love. Love is the root of all joy and sorrow. Slavish fear of God is to be put away. The right fear is the fear of losing God. If the earth flee downward from heaven, it finds heaven beneath it; if it flee upward, it comes again to heaven. The earth cannot flee from heaven: whether it flee up or down, the heaven rains its influence upon it, and stamps its impress upon it, and makes it fruitful, whether it be willing or not. Thus doth God with men: whoever thinketh to escape Him, flies into His bosom, for every corner is open to Him. God brings forth His Son in thee, whether thou likest it or not, whether thou sleepest or wakest; God worketh His own will. That man is unaware of it, is man's fault, for his taste is so spoilt by feeding on earthly things that he cannot relish God's love. If we had love to God, we should relish God, and all His works; we should receive all things from God, and work the same works as He worketh.

In the morning of life, when its cares are unknown, st. 2
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Act i. Sc. 3.
The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)