 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1909 - 630 pages
...Scarce the whole people stop his desperate course, While strong affliction gives the feeble force : 625 Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro,...the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one : ' Ah ! let me, let me go where sorrow... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...(See also MONTROSE) 12 In all the silent manliness of grief. GOLDSMITH — Deserted Village. L. 384. 730. POPE'S trans. 14 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ioto the ditch. M HOMER— Iliad. Bk. XXII. L. 626. POPE'S trans. u Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tarn can capitis?... | |
 | Donald Heinz - Social Science - 1998 - 319 pages
...outward the too narrow boundaries we have set for the space of death in our lives. Alexander Pope wrote: Grief tears his heart and drives him to and fro In all the raging impotence of woe. The passing of a loved one tears a great hole in the soul. Desperate searching is a common response:... | |
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Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. At length he roll'd in dust, and thus begun, Imploring all, and naming one by one: 'Ah! 
