• [Arthur Henry Hallam, Ob. 1833]
    Grief Unspeakable
    V.
    I SOMETIMES hold it half a sin
      To put in words the grief I feel:
      For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.

    But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
      A use in measured language lies;
      The sad mechanic exercise,
    Like dull narcotics,...