ABSENCE.
'T is said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not.
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.
Absence Conquers Love. F.W. THOMAS.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder;
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
Isle of Beauty. T.H. BAYLY.
Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see.
Sonnet. M. DRAYTON.
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name.
Mirandola. B.W. PROCTER.
Short absence hurt him more,
And made his wound far greater than before;
Absence not long enough to root out quite
All love, increases love at second sight.
Henry II. T. MAY.
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere.
Sonnet XCVII. SHAKESPEARE.
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Days of Absence, J.J. ROUSSEAU.
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years;
And every little absence is an age.
Amphictrion. J. DRYDEN.
What! keep a week away? Seven days and nights?
Eightscore eight hours? And lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times?
O, weary reckoning!
Othello. Act iii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
Long did his wife,
Suckling her babe, her only one, look out
The way he went at parting,—but he came not!
Italy. S. ROGERS.
With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence—o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
Lalla Rookh: Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. T. MOORE.
Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.
Eloise to Abélard. A. POPE.