Blind Thamyris, and Blind Mæonides,  Milton.
  Pursue the triumph and partake the gale!  Pope.
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees,  Shakespeare.
  To point a moral or adorn a tale.  Johnson.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene,  Gray.
  Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears,  Tennyson.
Like angels’ visits, few and far between,  ...