Disappointment/ hopeless yearning/ failing eyes

With great longing intertwined with disappointment. In shortness of spirit. In great expectation amidst disappointment (the eyes are weary from much anticipation).

"Your sons and daughters are given to another people, and your eyes see and fail upon them all day long, and there is no hand for God" - Devarim (Deuteronomy) 28:32, and also: "My eyes fail for Your salvation and for the word of Your righteousness" - Psalms 119:123, and also: "And the eyes of the bride will grow weary of weeping / Then you will rise like the light dipped in dew, daughter of my song" - H.N. Bialik, Night Thoughts, and also: "My soul is full of yearning, / My eyes fail for her" - Shaul Tchernichovsky, Fragments of Dew Nesting in the Night, and also: "A lonely man / at night sees with failing eyes how / there behind the dark mountain flowers / gentle are being carried away" - Nathan Yonatan, Memory of July, and also: "And this? Only this? / And for this to bear failing eyes" - Rachel, At the Coming

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