Sentence:  But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a <WSD>Niobe</WSD>, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable. (from 16th c.)