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I have this while with leaden, thoughts been press'd; But I shall, in a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence. - William Shakespeare, Othello 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! - William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVII All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet XLIII I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Conspicuous by his absence. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (bk. III, ch. 76), from the funeral of Junia 'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot. - Frederick William Thomas, Absence Conquers Love Since you have waned from us, Fairest of women! I am a darkened cage Songs cannot hymn in. My songs have followed you, Like birds the summer; Ah! bring them back to me, Swiftly, dear comer. Seraphim, Her to hymn Might leave their portals; And at my feet learn The harping of mortals! - Francis Thompson, A Carrier Song 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. - Unknown Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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