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Absence: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.— THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY — Isle of

Beauty. Wives in their husband's absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto III. St. 22.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.— GOLDSMITH — Traveller. L. 7.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.— HOMER — The Iliad. Bk. 22. L. 415.

Pope's trans. In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.— BEN JONSON — Underwoods.

Miscellaneous Poems, LIX. Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!— FRANCIS KAZINCZY — Separation.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?— FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE — Absence.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord. S.— CHARLES LAMB — Oxford in the Vacation.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.— CHARLES LAMB — Amicus Redivivus.

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.— GEORGE LINLEY — Song.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.— GEORGE LINLEY — Thou Art Gone.

There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's awa.— W. J. MICKLE — There's Nae Luck Aboot

the Hous 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!— MOORE — Lalla Rookh. The Veiled

Prophet of Khorassin. Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.— POPE — Eloise to Abelard. L. 361.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.— ROUSSEAU — Days of Absence.

Conspicuous by his absence.— LORD JOHN RUSSELL — Quoted from

Tacitus. Annals, III., 76. All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.— Shakespeare — Sonnet XLIII.

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.— Shakespeare — Sonnet XCVII.

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 120.

'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 W. 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.