Echo, cursed to repeat back the words of others, fell in unrequited love with Narcissus and pined away for him until she died.
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The jokes came flying fast and furious across Twitter about the desperation users felt as they pined away for these apps to come back on line.
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On the Dnieper's dark bank Rostislav's mother weeps the youth. Pined away have the flowers with condolement, and the tree has been bent to the ground with sorrow.
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" Herbert had a secretary 'Robert Streynsham', who lived in the Parsonage in Ospringe (near Faversham in Kent). Herbert is reported to have had a close bond with his pet dog. Aubrey writes that he "had a little cur-dog which loved him, and the earl loved the dog. When the earl died the dog would not go from his master's dead body, but pined away, and died under the hearse.
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Narcissus was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. As punishment, he was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Unable to consummate his love, Narcissus 'lay gazing enraptured into the pool, hour after hour',Robert Graves, in Symington, p. 7 and finally pined away, changing into a flower that bears his name, the narcissus.
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Ameinias committed suicide at Narcissus's doorstep after being rejected by him. He had prayed to Nemesis to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he provoked. Narcissus walked by a pool of water and decided to drink some. He saw his reflection, became entranced by it, and killed himself because he could not have his object of desire, or gazing endlessly at the image, he slowly pined away and was transformed by the nymphs into a narcissus flower.
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Nemesis saw this and attracted Narcissus to a pool where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it. Unable to embrace the watery image, he pined away, and the gods immortalized him as a Narcissus. Thanasis.com, Nemesis. retrieved March 15, 2011 The title of the song is a direct line from the poem, they wanted to use words from the poem to put in the song but, due to legal issues, they decided against it.
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31 In English translation: > They that go down to the sea in ships, doing business in the great waters: > 24 These have seen the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. 25 He > said the word, and there arose a storm of wind: and the waves thereof were > lifted up. 26 They mount up to the heavens, and they go down to the depths: > their soul pined away with evils. 27 They were troubled, and reeled like a > drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.
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But when, on the other hand, he > produced the tide-ebbing jewel, he was relieved, and recovered. After that > Hi no susori no Mikoto pined away from day to day, and lamented, saying: 'I > have become impoverished.' So he yielded submission to his younger brother. > (tr. Aston 1896:102–103) The Nihongi chapters on legendary Emperor Chūai (supposedly r. 192–200 CE) and his shamanistic Empress Jingū (r. 201–269 CE) combine myths about Japanese kanju and manju tide jewels with Indian nyoi-ju 如意珠 "cintamani; wish- fulfilling jewels". The former context says that in the 2nd year (193 CE) of Chūai's reign, he started an expedition against the Kumaso rebellion in southern Kyūshū and made preparations at Toyora (Nagato Province).
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Colossal statues of a man and a woman from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, traditionally identified as Artemisia II and Mausolos, around 350 BCE, British Museum. Artemisia is renowned in history for her extraordinary grief at the death of her husband (and brother) Mausolus. She is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink, and to have gradually pined away during the two years that she survived him. She induced the most eminent Greek rhetoricians to proclaim his praise in their oratory; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus the celebrated Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument.
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Both done simultaneously, but that one, who had built the town, judged, that his town was not finished yet, and so the other one should marry her. With the earth, which was dugged out at the building of the aqueduct, was built a hill and on the hill a village. The name of that one, who built the aqueduct, was Rade and so is the village also called Radučka glavica. Another old legend about this aqueduct is: :Selemnus, a beautiful young shepherd in those parts, was beloved by Argyra, the Nymph, from whom the town and fountain of that name were called; but the flower of his age being over, the Nymph deserted him, upon which he pined away, and was transformed into a river by Venus; after this he still retained his former passion, and for some time conveyed his waters, through a subterraneous passage, to Argyra's fountain.
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