I recognised at once that the poem was fraught with a pathos as magnificent as anything in the whole range of classic literature-and also that this pathos had that touch of stableness in sorrow which we associate, and rightly associate, with the classics.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Winthrop said nothing, for his thoughts were busy with that image of sweet self-guidance which he had never known to be unsteady or fail; and which, he knew, referred all its strength and all its stableness to the keeping of another hand.
"Hills of the Shatemuc"
Susan Warner