He asked me whether I would not go with him to his house; I declined it, from an apprehension that my spirits would sink. We bade ...adieu to each other affectionately in the carriage. When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, "Fare you well;" and without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetick briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away,... And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire?... I have no precious time at all to spend Nor services to do, till you require: Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, But like a sad slave, stay and think of nought Save, where you are, how happy you make those;-- So true a fool is love, that in your will Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then England's ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu, My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!... Where e'er I wander, boast of this I can: Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;... As many farewells as be stars in heaven, With distinct breath and consigned kisses to them, He fumbles up into a loose adieu, And scants us with a single famished kiss, Distasted with the salt of broken tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »