THE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS. ABSENCE. 1. THOUGH absent, present in desires they be; 2. Absence not long enough to root out quite All love, increases love at second sight. I'm from thy sight, the heart within my bosom DRAYTON. T. MAY. Whose nurse has left it. OTWAY'S Venice Preserved. There's not an hour Of day or dreaming nights but I am with thee: Of thee. PROCTOR'S Mirandola. 5. What tender strains of passion can impart The pangs of absence to an amorous heart! Souls paired like ours, like ours to union wrought, PATTISON. 6. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair! 7. Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, 8. Think'st thou that I could bear to part CowPER. THOMSON. BYRON'S Bride of Abydos. 9. Far I go where fate may lead me, 10. Tho' fate, my girl, may bid us part, The soul it cannot, cannot sever; 11. And canst thou think, because we part 12. "Tis hard to be parted from those With whom we for ever could dwell; T. MOORE. When perhaps we are saying farewell-forever! MRS. OPIE. 13. When absent from her whom my soul holds most dear, In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear, BRAHAM. |