Their mindgrief was great     dark with mourning.

Frederick Rebsamen, Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Rebsamen Beowulf mindgrief great dark mourning

Consider also:

  1. “After the War people said he was different. I, myself, think he was. But I can’t help feeling that with all his gifts he ought to have been doing bigger work. All that Britannic Majesty stuff isn’t my idea of a great man’s career. And Conway was—or should have been—great.”
  2. Mourning Prayer
  3. “Graham switched on the lights and bloodstains shouted at him from the walls, from the mattress and the floor. The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.”