Absence Quote by George Linley

“Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without,…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

— Bryan Procter

“I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,…

— William Shakespeare

And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is…

— Thomas Malory

“(N.B. I think this is from a hymn.) O joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace…

— Pamela Porter

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my…

— Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way…

— Anne Bradstreet

“My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting…

— William Wordsworth

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall…

— Thomas Moore

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry…

— David