On a circular hill, near the convergence of three rivers, a fairy who'd wept a river of tears was comforted by a dragon prince.
Bob Marley sang of its oppressions; the Melodians wept by its rivers.
We are weeping at the well, filling it with water--an impossible task--because somehow, despite all logic, when everyone takes a moment to weep, a river of kindness sometimes rises to do the impossible.
It has become clear that the tale of a universal flood was widespread in Mesopotamia for an entire millennium and a half before the hapless Judaeans, defeated in the early 6th century BC by Nebuchadnezzar, were dragged away from their smoking cities into exile, there to weep beside the rivers of Babylon.
Around us flowed the sound of the river and dewdrops wept from the moss.
I wept and railed in the river of grief, caught in a whirlpool sucking me down into anxiety and fear.
Because after Ma and Laura narrowly escape a run-in with a giant bear and Pa gets back from town and plays everyone a ditty on his fiddle, my two girls step over a sea of plastic toys to get to their beds, and I remove the sealed top from my tapioca and proceed to become agitated over ladies with surgically redesigned bodies who weep an endless river of tears over casual slights.
I wept as I walked over the river to the place where my girlfriend worked as a dog groomer.
These Achaean warriors on the shores of Troy fought with rivers; Achilles had immortal horses that wept at the knowledge of his approaching death.
When, as they journeyed together along the Nile in 130, the boy fell into the river and drowned, Hadrian was desolate and wept openly.
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion," as the K.J.V. has it.
