Some grief of his each coffin carrieth- His wild desires toward evenings dark with death Are here: his Mournings for he knows not what: Here are his tears, for ever on this spot Motionless in their shrouds: his memories.
"Poems of Emile Verhaeren"
Emile Verhaeren
The elder ladies began to calculate how many yards of broad hemming would be required, and to form a muster-roll of the company; with this improvement, that it was to be ten times as numerous as the one that had assembled at the christening; while the young ones busied their imaginations as to the effect of new Mournings-a luxury to them hitherto unknown.
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
He placed guards at the gates of the city to stop the frighted multitude from flying; he regulated and controlled their Mournings for their slain friends, both as to time and place; ordering that each family should perform such observances within private walls, and that they should continue only the space of one month, and then the whole city should be purified.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh