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Is not absence death to those who love?
Is not absence death to those who love?
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent read more
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet read more
A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.