“I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Lyrics
“When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”
The Chimney Sweeper, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
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Now weeps.”
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This greatest hour was hallowed and thundered<br>By angel's choirs; fire melted sky.<br>He asked his Father:"Why am I abandoned...?"<br>And told his Mother: "Mother, do not cry..." <br class="br"> Translated by Tanya Karshtedt (1996) http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/akhmatova/akhmatova_ind.html <br class="br">Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987), Crucifixion
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The Cry of the Children http://www.webterrace.com/browning/The%20Cry%20Of%20The%20Children.htm, st. 1 (1844).
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(10th April 1824) Love in Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1824