VICTOR MARIE HUGO After a life-photograph of Waléry, Paris,
POETICAL QUOTATIONS
"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it…. We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates."—R.W. EMERSON.
From "QUOTATION AND ORIGINALITY."
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.