Careful Words

suffering (n.)

suffering (adj.)

Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure

He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): A Rhymed Lesson. Urania.

Her suffering ended with the day,

Yet lived she at its close,

And breathed the long, long night away

In statue-like repose.

James Aldrich (1810-1856): A Death-Bed.

O suffering, sad humanity!

O ye afflicted ones, who lie

Steeped to the lips in misery,

Longing, yet afraid to die,

Patient, though sorely tried!

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): The Goblet of Life.

Yet tears to human suffering are due;

And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown

Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Laodamia.

Most wretched men

Are cradled into poetry by wrong:

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Julian and Maddalo. Line 544.

To be weak is miserable,

Doing or suffering.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 157.