Careful Words

grieve (v.)

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;

Come like shadows, so depart!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1.

  Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

George Crabbe (1754-1832): Tales of the Hall. Book iii. Boys at School.