suffering (n.)
suffering (adj.)
Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away
In statue-like repose.
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!
Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong:
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
