In Memoriam's Imagery and Motifs: Tears, Cries

Jon Lanestedt, University of Oslo

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• Prologue: "Forgive these wild and wandering cries"
  
• Section 1: "The far-off interest of tears"
  
• Section 4: "Break thou deep vase of chilling tears"
  
• Section 4: "and cries, 'Thou shalt not be the fool of loss'"
  
• Section 13: "Mine eyes have leisure for their tears"
  
• Section 19: "filled with tears that cannot fall"
  
• Section 20: "And tears that at their fountain freeze"
  
• Section 32: "With costly spikenard and with tears"
  
• Section 40: "tears are on the mother's face"
  
• Section 48: "that dip Their wings in tears"
  
• Section 49: "The bases of my life in tears"
  
• Section 56: "She cries, `A thousand types are gone: ... all shall go"
  
• Section 78: "with long use her tears are dry"
  
• Section 90: "one lonely thought That cries against my wish for thee"
  
• Section 113: "with cries, And undulations to and fro"
  
• Section 118: "dipt in baths of hissing tears"
  
• Section 124: "a child that cries, But, crying, knows his father near"
  
• Section 128: "To cleave a creed in sects and cries"

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• "Tears of the Widower:" Love and Grief in In Memoriam

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