Possible Clues:

• Feeling loss
• Weeds are universal in the early hours
• Brief time in front of grave around memorial showing grief
• Period in which there's universal grief
• Lamenting unpleasant smell in old vase? Just the opposite
• Grieving for break of day, we hear
• In a sorrowful state, as he's leaving nursing home
• That's right for grave occasions, but may sound too early