[ { "title": "An Exile's Farewell", "author": "Adam Lindsay Gordon", "lines": [ "The ocean heaves around us still", "With long and measured swell,", "The autumn gales our canvas fill,", "Our ship rides smooth and well.", "The broad Atlantic's bed of foam", "Still breaks against our prow;", "I shed no tears at quitting home,", "Nor will I shed them now!", "", "Against the bulwarks on the poop", "I lean, and watch the sun", "Behind the red horizon stoop —", "His race is nearly run.", "Those waves will never quench his light,", "O'er which they seem to close,", "To-morrow he will rise as bright", "As he this morning rose.", "", "How brightly gleams the orb of day", "Across the trackless sea!", "How lightly dance the waves that play", "Like dolphins in our lee!", "The restless waters seem to say,", "In smothered tones to me,", "How many thousand miles away", "My native land must be!", "", "Speak, Ocean! is my Home the same", "Now all is new to me? —", "The tropic sky's resplendent flame,", "The vast expanse of sea?", "Does all around her, yet unchanged,", "The well-known aspect wear?", "Oh! can the leagues that I have ranged", "Have made no difference there?", "", "How vivid Recollection's hand", "Recalls the scene once more!", "I see the same tall poplars stand", "Beside the garden door;", "I see the bird-cage hanging still;", "And where my sister set", "The flowers in the window-sill —", "Can they be living yet?", "", "Let woman's nature cherish grief,", "I rarely heave a sigh", "Before emotion takes relief", "In listless apathy;", "While from my pipe the vapours curl", "Towards the evening sky,", "And 'neath my feet the billows whirl", "In dull monotony!", "", "The sky still wears the crimson streak", "Of Sol's departing ray,", "Some briny drops are on my cheek,", "'Tis but the salt sea spray!", "Then let our barque the ocean roam,", "Our keel the billows plough;", "I shed no tears at quitting home,", "Nor will I shed them now!" ], "linecount": "56" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Amy Levy", "lines": [ "(After Heine.)", "", "", "The sad rain falls from Heaven,", "A sad bird pipes and sings ;", "I am sitting here at my window", "And watching the spires of \"King's.\"", "", "O fairest of all fair places,", "Sweetest of all sweet towns!", "With the birds, and the greyness and greenness,", "And the men in caps and gowns.", "", "All they that dwell within thee,", "To leave are ever loth,", "For one man gets friends, and another", "Gets honour, and one gets both.", "", "The sad rain falls from Heaven;", "My heart is great with woe--", "I have neither a friend nor honour,", "Yet I am sorry to go." ], "linecount": "17" }, { "title": "Farewell", "author": "Anne Bronte", "lines": [ "Farewell to thee! but not farewell", "To all my fondest thoughts of thee:", "Within my heart they still shall dwell;", "And they shall cheer and comfort me.", "O, beautiful, and full of grace!", "If thou hadst never met mine eye,", "I had not dreamed a living face", "Could fancied charms so far outvie.", "", "If I may ne'er behold again", "That form and face so dear to me,", "Nor hear thy voice, still would I fain", "Preserve, for aye, their memory.", "", "That voice, the magic of whose tone", "Can wake an echo in my breast,", "Creating feelings that, alone,", "Can make my tranced spirit blest.", "", "That laughing eye, whose sunny beam", "My memory would not cherish less; --", "And oh, that smile! whose joyous gleam", "Nor mortal language can express.", "", "Adieu, but let me cherish, still,", "The hope with which I cannot part.", "Contempt may wound, and coldness chill,", "But still it lingers in my heart.", "", "And who can tell but Heaven, at last,", "May answer all my thousand prayers,", "And bid the future pay the past", "With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?" ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "A Farewell to the World", "author": "Ben Jonson", "lines": [ "FALSE world, good night! since thou hast brought", " That hour upon my morn of age;", "Henceforth I quit thee from my thought,", " My part is ended on thy stage.", "", "Yes, threaten, do. Alas! I fear", " As little as I hope from thee:", "I know thou canst not show nor bear", " More hatred than thou hast to me.", "", "My tender, first, and simple years", " Thou didst abuse and then betray;", "Since stir'd'st up jealousies and fears,", " When all the causes were away.", "", "Then in a soil hast planted me", " Where breathe the basest of thy fools;", "Where envious arts professed be,", " And pride and ignorance the schools;", "", "Where nothing is examined, weigh'd,", " But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed;", "Where every freedom is betray'd,", " And every goodness tax'd or grieved.", "", "But what we're born for, we must bear:", " Our frail condition it is such", "That what to all may happen here,", " If 't chance to me, I must not grutch.", "", "Else I my state should much mistake", " To harbour a divided thought", "From all my kind--that, for my sake,", " There should a miracle be wrought.", "", "No, I do know that I was born", " To age, misfortune, sickness, grief:", "But I will bear these with that scorn", " As shall not need thy false relief.", "", "Nor for my peace will I go far,", " As wanderers do, that still do roam;", "But make my strengths, such as they are,", " Here in my bosom, and at home." ], "linecount": "36" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Charles Kingsley", "lines": [ "I", "", "My fairest child, I have no song to give you;", "No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:", "Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you", "For every day.", "", "II", "", "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;", "Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:", "And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever", "One grand, sweet song." ], "linecount": "10" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Coventry Patmore", "lines": [ "With all my will, but much against my heart,", "We two now part.", "My Very Dear,", "Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear.", "It needs no art,", "With faint, averted feet", "And many a tear,", "In our opposèd paths to persevere.", "Go thou to East, I West.", "We will not say", "There 's any hope, it is so far away.", "But, O, my Best,", "When the one darling of our widowhead,", "The nursling Grief,", "Is dead,", "And no dews blur our eyes", "To see the peach-bloom come in evening skies,", "Perchance we may,", "Where now this night is day,", "And even through faith of still averted feet,", "Making full circle of our banishment,", "Amazèd meet;", "The bitter journey to the bourne so sweet", "Seasoning the termless feast of our content", "With tears of recognition never dry." ], "linecount": "25" }, { "title": "Farewell to Ravelrig", "author": "James Thomson", "lines": [ "Sweet Ravelrig, I ne'er could part", "From thee, but wi' a dowie heart.", "When I think on the happy days", "I spent in youth about your braes,", "When innocence my steps did guide,", "Where murmuring streams did sweetly glide", "Beside the braes well stored wi' trees,", "And sweetest flow'rs that fend the bees:", "", "And there the tuneful tribe doth sing,", "While lightly flitting on the wing;", "And conscious peace was ever found", "Within your mansion to abound.", "Sweet be thy former owner's rest,", "And peace to him that's now possess't", "Of all thy beauties great and small,", "Lang may he live to bruik them all!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!", "author": "John Dryden", "lines": [ "Farewell, ungrateful traitor!", "Farewell, my perjur'd swain!", "Let never injur'd woman", "Believe a man again.", "The pleasure of possessing", "Surpasses all expressing,", "But 'tis too short a blessing,", "And love too long a pain.", "", "'Tis easy to deceive us", "In pity of your pain,", "But when we love, you leave us", "To rail at you in vain.", "Before we have descried it,", "There is no joy beside it,", "But she that once has tried it", "Will never love again.", "", "The passion you pretended", "Was only to obtain,", "But once the charm is ended,", "The charmer you disdain.", "Your love by ours we measure", "Till we have lost our treasure,", "But dying is a pleasure", "When living is a pain." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "The Farewell", "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "lines": [ "Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage", "", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone.", "Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings", "Where the noisome insect stings", "Where the fever demon strews", "Poison with the falling dews", "Where the sickly sunbeams glare", "Through the hot and misty air;", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,", "From Virginia's hills and waters;", "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!", "", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone", "There no mother's eye is near them,", "There no mother's ear can hear them;", "Never, when the torturing lash", "Seams their back with many a gash", "Shall a mother's kindness bless them", "Or a mother's arms caress them.", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,", "From Virginia's hills and waters;", "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!", "", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,", "Oh, when weary, sad, and slow,", "From the fields at night they go", "Faint with toil, and racked with pain", "To their cheerless homes again,", "There no brother's voice shall greet them", "There no father's welcome meet them.", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,", "From Virginia's hills and waters;", "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!", "", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone", "From the tree whose shadow lay", "On their childhood's place of play;", "From the cool sprmg where they drank;", "Rock, and hill, and rivulet bank;", "From the solemn house of prayer,", "And the holy counsels there;", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,", "From Virginia's hills and waters;", "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!", "", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone;", "Toiling through the weary day,", "And at night the spoiler's prey.", "Oh, that they had earlier died,", "Sleeping calmly, side by side,", "Where the tyrant's power is o'er", "And the fetter galls no more!", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone;", "From Virginia's hills and waters", "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!", "", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone;", "By the holy love He beareth;", "By the bruised reed He spareth;", "Oh, may He, to whom alone", "All their cruel wrongs are known,", "Still their hope and refuge prove,", "With a more than mother's love.", "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,", "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,", "From Virginia's hills and waters;", "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!" ], "linecount": "73" }, { "title": "A Farewell", "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson", "lines": [ "Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,", " Thy tribute wave deliver:", "No more by thee my steps shall be,", " For ever and for ever.", "", "Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,", " A rivulet then a river:", "Nowhere by thee my steps shall be", " For ever and for ever.", "", "But here will sigh thine alder tree", " And here thine aspen shiver;", "And here by thee will hum the bee,", " For ever and for ever.", "", "A thousand suns will stream on thee,", " A thousand moons will quiver;", "But not by thee my steps shall be,", " For ever and for ever." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Sonnet XXIX: Farewell, Ye Tow'ring Cedars", "author": "Robinson", "lines": [ "Farewell, ye tow'ring Cedars, in whose shade,", "Lull'd by the Nightingale, I sunk to rest,", "While spicy breezes hover'd o'er my breast", "To fan my cheek, in deep'ning tints array'd;", "While am'rous insects, humming round me, play'd,", "Each flow'r forsook, of prouder sweets in quest;", "Of glowing lips, in humid fragrance drest,", "That mock'd the Sunny Hybla's vaunted aid!", "Farewell, ye limpid rivers! Oh! farewell!", "No more shall Sappho to your grots repair;", "No more your white waves to her bosom swell,", "Or your dank weeds, entwine her floating hair;", "As erst, when Venus in her sparry cell", "Wept, to behold a brighter goddess there!" ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Sonnet XIX: Farewell, Ye Coral Caves", "author": "Robinson", "lines": [ "Farewell, ye coral caves, ye pearly sands,", "Ye waving woods that crown yon lofty steep;", "Farewell, ye Nereides of the glitt'ring deep,", "Ye mountain tribes, ye fawns, ye sylvan bands:", "On the bleak rock your frantic minstrel stands,", "Each task forgot, save that, to sigh and weep;", "In vain the strings her burning fingers sweep,", "No more her touch, the Grecian Lyre commands!", "In Circe's cave my faithless Phaon's laid,", "Her daemons dress his brow with opiate flow'rs;", "Or, loit'ring in the brown pomgranate shade,", "Beguile with am'rous strains the fateful hours;", "While Sappho's lips, to paly ashes fade,", "And sorrow's cank'ring worm her heart devours!" ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "We Never Said Farewell", "author": "Mary Elizabeth Coleridge", "lines": [ "WE never said farewell, nor even looked", "Our last upon each other, for no sign", "Was made when we the linkèd chain unhooked", "And broke the level line.", "", "And here we dwell together, side by side,", "Our places fixed for life upon the chart.", "Two islands that the roaring seas divide", "Are not more far apart." ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "A Farewell to Agassiz", "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "lines": [ "How the mountains talked together,", "Looking down upon the weather,", "When they heard our friend had planned his", "Little trip among the Andes", "How they'll bare their snowy scalps", "To the climber of the Alps", "When the cry goes through their passes,", "\"Here comes the great Agassiz!\"", "\"Yes, I'm tall,\" says Chimborazo,", "\"But I wait for him to say so,--", "That's the only thing that lacks,-- he", "Must see me, Cotopaxi!\"", "\"Ay! ay!\" the fire-peak thunders,", "\"And he must view my wonders", "I'm but a lonely crater", "Till I have him for spectator!\"", "The mountain hearts are yearning,", "The lava-torches burning,", "The rivers bend to meet him,", "The forests bow to greet him,", "It thrills the spinal column", "Of fossil fishes solemn,", "And glaciers crawl the faster", "To the feet of their old master!", "Heaven keep him well and hearty,", "Both him and all his party!", "From the sun that broils and smites,", "From the centipede that bites,", "From the hail-storm and the thunder,", "From the vampire and the condor,", "From the gust upon the river,", "From the sudden earthquake shiver,", "From the trip of mule or donkey,", "From the midnight howling monkey,", "From the stroke of knife or dagger,", "From the puma and the jaguar,", "From the horrid boa-constrictor", "That has scared us in the picture,", "From the Indians of the Pampas", "Who would dine upon their grampas,", "From every beast and vermin", "That to think of sets us squirmin',", "From every snake that tries on", "The traveller his p'ison,", "From every pest of Natur',", "Likewise the alligator,", "And from two things left behind him,", "(Be sure they'll try to find him,)", "The tax-bill and assessor,--", "Heaven keep the great Professor!", "May he find, with his apostles,", "That the land is full of fossils,", "That the waters swarm with fishes", "Shaped according to his wishes,", "That every pool is fertile", "In fancy kinds of turtle,", "New birds around him singing,", "New insects, never stinging,", "With a million novel data", "About the articulata,", "And facts that strip off all husks", "From the history of mollusks.", "", "And when, with loud Te Deum,", "He returns to his Museum", "May he find the monstrous reptile", "That so long the land has kept ill", "By Grant and Sherman throttled,", "And by Father Abraham bottled,", "(All specked and streaked and mottled", "With the scars of murderous battles,", "Where he clashed the iron rattles", "That gods and men he shook at,)", "For all the world to look at!", "God bless the great Professor!", "And Madam, too, God bless her!", "Bless him and all his band,", "On the sea and on the land,", "Bless them head and heart and hand,", "Till their glorious raid is o'er,", "And they touch our ransomed shore!", "Then the welcome of a nation,", "With its shout of exultation,", "Shall awake the dumb creation,", "And the shapes of buried aeons", "Join the living creature's paeans,", "Till the fossil echoes roar;", "While the mighty megalosaurus", "Leads the palaeozoic chorus,", "God bless the great Professor,", "And the land his proud possessor,--", "Bless them now and evermore!" ], "linecount": "91" }, { "title": "292. Song—Farewell to the Highlands", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "FAREWELL to the Highlands, farewell to the North,", "The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;", "Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,", "The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.", "", "", "Chorus.—My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,", "My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;", "Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,", "My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.", "", "", "Farewell to the mountains, high-cover’d with snow,", "Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;", "Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,", "Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.", " My heart’s in the Highlands, &c." ], "linecount": "13" }, { "title": "Farewell to the Muse", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Thou Power! who hast ruled me through Infancy's days,", " Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part;", "Then rise on the gale this the last of my lays,", " The coldest effusion which springs from my heart.", "", "This bosom, responsive to rapture no more,", " Shall hush thy wild notes, nor implore thee to sing;", "The feelings of childhood, which taught thee to soar,", " Are wafted far distant on Apathy's wing.", "", "Though simple the themes of my rude flowing Lyre,", " Yet even these themes are departed for ever;", "No more beam the eyes which my dream could inspire,", " My visions are flown, to return,--alas, never!", "", "When drain'd is the nectar which gladdens the bowl,", " How vain is the effort delight to prolong!", "When cold is the beauty which dwelt in my soul,", " What magic of Fancy can lengthen my song?", "", "Can the lips sing of Love in the desert alone,", " Of kisses and smiles which they now must resign?", "Or dwell with delight on the hours that are flown?", " Ah, no! for those hours can no longer be mine.", "", "Can they speak of the friends that I lived but to love?", " Ah, surely Affection ennobles the strain!", "But how can my numbers in sympathy move,", " When I scarcely can hope to behold them again?", "", "Can I sing of the deeds which my Fathers have done,", " And raise my loud harp to the fame of my Sires?", "For glories like theirs, oh, how faint is my tone!", " For Heroes' exploits how unequal my fires!", "", "Untouch'd, then, my Lyre shall reply to the blast--", " 'Tis hush'd; and my feeble endeavours are o'er;", "And those who have heard it will pardon the past,", " When they know that its murmurs shall vibrate no more.", "", "And soon shall its wild erring notes be forgot,", " Since early affection and love is o'ercast:", "Oh! blest had my Fate been, and happy my lot,", " Had the first strain of love been the dearest, the last.", "", "Farewell, my young Muse! since we now can ne'er meet;", " If our songs have been languid, they surely are few:", "Let us hope that the present at least will be sweet--", " The present--which seals our eternal Adieu." ], "linecount": "40" }, { "title": "Farewell to Malta", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!", "Adieu, Sirocco, sun, and sweat!", "Adieu, thou palace rarely entered!", "Adieu, ye mansions where--I've ventured!", "Adieu, ye curséd streets of stairs!", "(How surely he who mounts them swears!)", "Adieu, ye merchants often failing!", "Adieu, thou mob for ever railing!", "Adieu, ye packets--without letters!", "Adieu, ye fools--who ape your betters!", "Adieu, thou damned'st quarantine,", "That gave me fever, and the spleen!", "Adieu that stage which makes us yawn, Sirs,", "Adieu his Excellency's dancers!", "Adieu to Peter--whom no fault's in,", "But could not teach a colonel waltzing;", "Adieu, ye females fraught with graces!", "Adieu red coats, and redder faces!", "Adieu the supercilious air", "Of all that strut _en militaire_!", "I go--but God knows when, or why,", "To smoky towns and cloudy sky,", "To things (the honest truth to say)", "As bad--but in a different way.", "", "Farewell to these, but not adieu,", "Triumphant sons of truest blue!", "While either Adriatic shore,", "And fallen chiefs, and fleets no more,", "And nightly smiles, and daily dinners,", "Proclaim you war and women's winners.", "Pardon my Muse, who apt to prate is,", "And take my rhyme--because 'tis \"gratis.\"", "", "And now I've got to Mrs. Fraser,", "Perhaps you think I mean to praise her--", "And were I vain enough to think", "My praise was worth this drop of ink,", "A line--or two--were no hard matter,", "As here, indeed, I need not flatter:", "But she must be content to shine", "In better praises than in mine,", "With lively air, and open heart,", "And fashion's ease, without its art;", "Her hours can gaily glide along.", "Nor ask the aid of idle song.", "", "And now, O Malta! since thou'st got us,", "Thou little military hot-house!", "I'll not offend with words uncivil,", "And wish thee rudely at the Devil,", "But only stare from out my casement,", "And ask, \"for what is such a place meant?\"", "Then, in my solitary nook,", "Return to scribbling, or a book,", "Or take my physic while I'm able", "(Two spoonfuls hourly, by this label),", "Prefer my nightcap to my beaver,", "And bless my stars I've got a fever." ], "linecount": "56" }, { "title": "Napoleon's Farewell", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Farewell to the Land, where the gloom of my Glory", "Arose and o'ershadowed the earth with her name--", "She abandons me now--but the page of her story,", "The brightest or blackest, is filled with my fame.", "I have warred with a World which vanquished me only", "When the meteor of conquest allured me too far;", "I have coped with the nations which dread me thus lonely,", "The last single Captive to millions in war.", "", "Farewell to thee, France! when thy diadem crowned me,", "I made thee the gem and the wonder of earth,--", "But thy weakness decrees I should leave as I found thee,", "Decayed in thy glory, and sunk in thy worth.", "Oh! for the veteran hearts that were wasted", "In strife with the storm, when their battles were won--", "Then the Eagle, whose gaze in that moment was blasted", "Had still soared with eyes fixed on Victory's sun!", "", "Farewell to thee, France!--but when Liberty rallies", "Once more in thy regions, remember me then,--", "The Violet still grows in the depth of thy valleys;", "Though withered, thy tear will unfold it again--", "Yet, yet, I may baffle the hosts that surround us,", "And yet may thy heart leap awake to my voice--", "There are links which must break in the chain that has bound us,", "_Then_ turn thee and call on the Chief of thy choice!" ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Farewell to North Devon", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "lines": [ "Where man's profane and tainting hand", "Nature's primaeval loveliness has marred,", "And some few souls of the high bliss debarred", "Which else obey her powerful command;", "...mountain piles", "That load in grandeur Cambria's emerald vales." ], "linecount": "6" }, { "title": "128. The Farewell", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "FAREWELL, old Scotia’s bleak domains,", "Far dearer than the torrid plains,", " Where rich ananas blow!", "Farewell, a mother’s blessing dear!", "A borther’s sigh! a sister’s tear!", " My Jean’s heart-rending throe!", "Farewell, my Bess! tho’ thou’rt bereft", " Of my paternal care.", "A faithful brother I have left,", " My part in him thou’lt share!", " Adieu, too, to you too,", " My Smith, my bosom frien’;", " When kindly you mind me,", " O then befriend my Jean!", "", "", "What bursting anguish tears my heart;", "From thee, my Jeany, must I part!", " Thou, weeping, answ’rest—“No!”", "Alas! misfortune stares my face,", "And points to ruin and disgrace,", " I for thy sake must go!", "Thee, Hamilton, and Aiken dear,", " A grateful, warm adieu:", "I, with a much-indebted tear,", " Shall still remember you!", " All hail then, the gale then,", " Wafts me from thee, dear shore!", " It rustles, and whistles", " I’ll never see thee more!" ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "494. Song—Farewell thou stream that winding flows", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows", " Around Eliza’s dwelling;", "O mem’ry! spare the cruel thoes", " Within my bosom swelling.", "Condemn’d to drag a hopeless chain", " And yet in secret languish;", "To feel a fire in every vein,", " Nor dare disclose my anguish.", "", "", "Love’s veriest wretch, unseen, unknown,", " I fain my griefs would cover;", "The bursting sigh, th’ unweeting groan,", " Betray the hapless lover.", "I know thou doom’st me to despair,", " Nor wilt, nor canst relieve me;", "But, O Eliza, hear one prayer—", " For pity’s sake forgive me!", "", "", "The music of thy voice I heard,", " Nor wist while it enslav’d me;", "I saw thine eyes, yet nothing fear’d,", " Till fears no more had sav’d me:", "Th’ unwary sailor thus, aghast", " The wheeling torrent viewing,", "’Mid circling horrors sinks at last,", " In overwhelming ruin." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "73. Song—Farewell to Ballochmyle", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "THE CATRINE woods were yellow seen,", " The flowers decay’d on Catrine lee,", "Nae lav’rock sang on hillock green,", " But nature sicken’d on the e’e.", "Thro’ faded groves Maria sang,", " Hersel’ in beauty’s bloom the while;", "And aye the wild-wood ehoes rang,", " Fareweel the braes o’ Ballochmyle!", "", "", "Low in your wintry beds, ye flowers,", " Again ye’ll flourish fresh and fair;", "Ye birdies dumb, in with’ring bowers,", " Again ye’ll charm the vocal air.", "But here, alas! for me nae mair", " Shall birdie charm, or floweret smile;", "Fareweel the bonie banks of Ayr,", " Fareweel, fareweel! sweet Ballochmyle!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "115. The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "ADIEU! a heart-warm fond adieu;", " Dear brothers of the mystic tie!", "Ye favourèd, enlighten’d few,", " Companions of my social joy;", "Tho’ I to foreign lands must hie,", " Pursuing Fortune’s slidd’ry ba’;", "With melting heart, and brimful eye,", " I’ll mind you still, tho’ far awa.", "", "", "Oft have I met your social band,", " And spent the cheerful, festive night;", "Oft, honour’d with supreme command,", " Presided o’er the sons of light:", "And by that hieroglyphic bright,", " Which none but Craftsmen ever saw", "Strong Mem’ry on my heart shall write", " Those happy scenes, when far awa.", "", "", "May Freedom, Harmony, and Love,", " Unite you in the grand Design,", "Beneath th’ Omniscient Eye above,", " The glorious Architect Divine,", "That you may keep th’ unerring line,", " Still rising by the plummet’s law,", "Till Order bright completely shine,", " Shall be my pray’r when far awa.", "", "", "And you, farewell! whose merits claim", " Justly that highest badge to wear:", "Heav’n bless your honour’d noble name,", " To Masonry and Scotia dear!", "A last request permit me here,—", " When yearly ye assemble a’,", "One round, I ask it with a tear,", " To him, the Bard that’s far awa." ], "linecount": "32" }, { "title": "137. Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "THE GLOOMY night is gath’ring fast,", "Loud roars the wild, inconstant blast,", "Yon murky cloud is foul with rain,", "I see it driving o’er the plain;", "The hunter now has left the moor.", "The scatt’red coveys meet secure;", "While here I wander, prest with care,", "Along the lonely banks of Ayr.", "", "", "The Autumn mourns her rip’ning corn", "By early Winter’s ravage torn;", "Across her placid, azure sky,", "She sees the scowling tempest fly:", "Chill runs my blood to hear it rave;", "I think upon the stormy wave,", "Where many a danger I must dare,", "Far from the bonie banks of Ayr.", "", "", "’Tis not the surging billow’s roar,", "’Tis not that fatal, deadly shore;", "Tho’ death in ev’ry shape appear,", "The wretched have no more to fear:", "But round my heart the ties are bound,", "That heart transpierc’d with many a wound;", "These bleed afresh, those ties I tear,", "To leave the bonie banks of Ayr.", "", "", "Farewell, old Coila’s hills and dales,", "Her healthy moors and winding vales;", "The scenes where wretched Fancy roves,", "Pursuing past, unhappy loves!", "Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!", "My peace with these, my love with those:", "The bursting tears my heart declare—", "Farewell, the bonie banks of Ayr!" ], "linecount": "32" }, { "title": "209. Song—M’Pherson’s Farewell", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "FAREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong,", " The wretch’s destinie!", "M’Pherson’s time will not be long", " On yonder gallows-tree.", "", "", "Chorus.—Sae rantingly, sae wantonly,", " Sae dauntingly gaed he;", "He play’d a spring, and danc’d it round,", " Below the gallows-tree.", "", "", "O, what is death but parting breath?", " On many a bloody plain", "I’ve dared his face, and in this place", " I scorn him yet again!", " Sae rantingly, &c.", "", "", "Untie these bands from off my hands,", " And bring me to my sword;", "And there’s no a man in all Scotland", " But I’ll brave him at a word.", " Sae rantingly, &c.", "", "", "I’ve liv’d a life of sturt and strife;", " I die by treacherie:", "It burns my heart I must depart,", " And not avengèd be.", " Sae rantingly, &c.", "", "", "Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright,", " And all beneath the sky!", "May coward shame distain his name,", " The wretch that dares not die!", " Sae rantingly, &c." ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "117. Song—Farewell to Eliza", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "FROM thee, Eliza, I must go,", " And from my native shore;", "The cruel fates between us throw", " A boundless ocean’s roar:", "But boundless oceans, roaring wide,", " Between my love and me,", "They never, never can divide", " My heart and soul from thee.", "", "", "Farewell, farewell, Eliza dear,", " The maid that I adore!", "A boding voice is in mine ear,", " We part to meet no more!", "But the latest throb that leaves my heart,", " While Death stands victor by,—", "That throb, Eliza, is thy part,", " And thine that latest sigh!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME SPRING", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear", "Reclothed in fresh and verdant diaper;", "Thaw'd are the snows; and now the lusty Spring", "Gives to each mead a neat enamelling;", "The palms put forth their gems, and every tree", "Now swaggers in her leafy gallantry.", "The while the Daulian minstrel sweetly sings", "With warbling notes her Terean sufferings.", "--What gentle winds perspire! as if here", "Never had been the northern plunderer", "To strip the trees and fields, to their distress,", "Leaving them to a pitied nakedness.", "And look how when a frantic storm doth tear", "A stubborn oak or holm, long growing there,--", "But lull'd to calmness, then succeeds a breeze", "That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees;", "So when this war, which tempest-like doth spoil", "Our salt, our corn, our honey, wine, and oil,", "Falls to a temper, and doth mildly cast", "His inconsiderate frenzy off, at last,", "The gentle dove may, when these turmoils cease,", "Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of Peace." ], "linecount": "22" }, { "title": "HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "You may vow I'll not forget", "To pay the debt", "Which to thy memory stands as due", "As faith can seal it you.", "--Take then tribute of my tears;", "So long as I have fears", "To prompt me, I shall ever", "Languish and look, but thy return see never.", "Oh then to lessen my despair,", "Print thy lips into(the air,", "So by this", "Means, I may kiss thy kiss,", "Whenas some kind", "Wind", "Shall hither waft it:--And, in lieu,", "My lips shall send a thousand back to you." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Farewell", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "lines": [ "FAREWELL, and when forth", "I through the Golden Gates to Golden Isles", "Steer without smiling, through the sea of smiles,", "Isle upon isle, in the seas of the south,", "Isle upon island, sea upon sea,", "Why should I sail, why should the breeze?", "I have been young, and I have counted friends.", "A hopeless sail I spread, too late, too late.", "Why should I from isle to isle", "Sail, a hopeless sailor?" ], "linecount": "10" }, { "title": "Farewell to the Farm", "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "lines": [ "The coach is at the door at last;", "The eager children, mounting fast", "And kissing hands, in chorus sing:", "Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!", "", "To house and garden, field and lawn,", "The meadow-gates we swang upon,", "To pump and stable, tree and swing,", "Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!", "", "And fare you well for evermore,", "O ladder at the hayloft door,", "O hayloft where the cobwebs cling,", "Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!", "", "Crack goes the whip, and off we go;", "The trees and houses smaller grow;", "Last, round the woody turn we sing:", "Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Farewell Love and All Thy Laws Forever", "author": "Sir Thomas Wyatt", "lines": [ "Farewell love and all thy laws forever;", "Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.", "Senec and Plato call me from thy lore", "To perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour.", "In blind error when I did persever,", "Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,", "Hath taught me to set in trifles no store", "And scape forth, since liberty is lever.", "Therefore farewell; go trouble younger hearts", "And in me claim no more authority.", "With idle youth go use thy property", "And thereon spend thy many brittle darts,", "For hitherto though I have lost all my time,", "Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to climb." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "A Farewell to False Love", "author": "Sir Walter Raleigh", "lines": [ "Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies,", "A mortal foe and enemy to rest,", "An envious boy, from whom all cares arise,", "A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed,", "A way of error, a temple full of treason,", "In all effects contrary unto reason.", "", "A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers,", "Mother of sighs, and murderer of repose,", "A sea of sorrows whence are drawn such showers", "As moisture lend to every grief that grows;", "A school of guile, a net of deep deceit,", "A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait.", "", "A fortress foiled, which reason did defend,", "A siren song, a fever of the mind,", "A maze wherein affection finds no end,", "A raging cloud that runs before the wind,", "A substance like the shadow of the sun,", "A goal of grief for which the wisest run.", "", "A quenchless fire, a nurse of trembling fear,", "A path that leads to peril and mishap,", "A true retreat of sorrow and despair,", "An idle boy that sleeps in pleasure's lap,", "A deep mistrust of that which certain seems,", "A hope of that which reason doubtful deems.", "", "Sith then thy trains my younger years betrayed,", "And for my faith ingratitude I find;", "And sith repentance hath my wrongs bewrayed,", "Whose course was ever contrary to kind:", "False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu.", "Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew." ], "linecount": "30" }, { "title": "Farewell to the Court", "author": "Sir Walter Raleigh", "lines": [ "Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expir'd,", "And past return are all my dandled days;", "My love misled, and fancy quite retir'd--", "Of all which pass'd the sorrow only stays.", "", "My lost delights, now clean from sight of land,", "Have left me all alone in unknown ways;", "My mind to woe, my life in fortune's hand--", "Of all which pass'd the sorrow only stays.", "", "As in a country strange, without companion,", "I only wail the wrong of death's delays,", "Whose sweet spring spent, whose summer well-nigh done--", "Of all which pass'd only the sorrow stays.", "", "Whom care forewarns, ere age and winter cold,", "To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Harp of the North, Farewell!", "author": "Sir Walter Scott", "lines": [ "Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark,", "On purple peaks a deeper shade descending;", "In twilight copse the glow-worm lights her spark,", "The deer, half-seen, are to the covert wending.", "Resume thy wizard elm! the fountain lending,", "And the wild breeze, thy wilder minstrelsy;", "Thy numbers sweet with nature’s vespers blending,", "With distant echo from the fold and lea,", "And herd-boy’s evening pipe, and hum of housing bee.", "", "Yet, once again, farewell, thou Minstrel Harp!", "Yet, once again, forgive my feeble sway,", "And little reck I of the censure sharp", "May idly cavil at an idle lay.", "Much have I owed thy strains on life’s long way,", "Through secret woes the world has never known,", "When on the weary night dawned wearier day,", "And bitterer was the grief devoured alone.—", "That I o’erlive such woes, Enchantress! is thine own.", "", "Hark! as my lingering footsteps slow retire,", "Some spirit of the Air has waked thy string!", "’Tis now a seraph bold, with touch of fire,", "’Tis now the brush of Fairy’s frolic wing.", "Receding now, the dying numbers ring", "Fainter and fainter down the rugged dell;", "And now the mountain breezes scarcely bring", "A wandering witch-note of the distant spell—", "And now, ’tis silent all!—Enchantress, fare thee well!" ], "linecount": "27" }, { "title": "Farewell! -- But Whenever You Welcome the Hour", "author": "Thomas Moore", "lines": [ "Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour", "That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower,", "Then think of the friend who once welcomed it too,", "And forgot his own griefs to be happy with you.", "His griefs may return, not a hope may remain", "Of the few that have brighten'd his pathway of pain,", "But he ne'er will forget the short vision, that threw", "Its enchantment around him, while lingering with you.", "", "And still on that evening, when pleasure fills up", "To the highest top sparkle each heart and each cup,", "Where'er my path lies, be it gloomy or bright,", "My soul, happy friends, shall be with you that night;", "Shall join in your revels, your sports, and your wiles,", "And return to me, beaming all o'er with your smiles --", "Too blest, if it tells me that, 'mid the gay cheer,", "Some kind voice has murmur'd, \"I wish he were here!\"", "", "Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy,", "Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;", "Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care,", "And bring back the features that joy used to wear.", "Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd!", "Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd --", "You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,", "But the scent of the roses will hang round it still." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Farewell Address at the Argyle Hall", "author": "William Topaz McGonagall", "lines": [ "Fellow Citizens of Dundee.", "I now must bid farewell to ye.", "For I am going to London far away.", "But when I will return again I cannot say.", "", "Farewell! Farewell! to the bonnie banks o' the Silvery Tay.", "Also the beautiful Hill o' Balgay.", "And the ill fated Bridge o' the Silvery Tay.", "Which I will remember when I am far away.", "", "Farewell! to my friends and, patrons all.", "That rallied around me in the Music Hall.", "And those that has rallied around me to night,", "I shall not forget when out of sight.", "", "And, if I ever return to Dundee again,", "I hope it will be with the laurels of fame.", "Plac'd on my brow by dame fortune that fickle Jade.", "And, to Court her favour I am not afraid.", "", "Farewell! to every one in the Argyle Hall.", "That has Come to hear McGonagall.", "Recite, and sing, his Songs to night.", "Which I hope will long be rernember'd when I'm out of sight.", "", "Adieu to all my enemies that want to mock me when passing by.", "But I excuse them for their ignorance and leave them to the most high.", "And, once again, my friends, and enemies. I bid ye all good bye.", "And when I am gone ye will for me heave a sigh :-", "", "I return my thanks to my Chairman and my Committee,", "For the Kindness they have always shown to me.", "I hope the Lord! will protect them when I am far away.", "And prosper them in all their undertakings by night and by day." ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing", "author": "William Shakespeare", "lines": [ "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,", "And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,", "The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;", "My bonds in thee are all determinate.", "For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?", "And for that riches where is my deserving?", "The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,", "And so my patent back again is swerving.", "Thy self thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,", "Or me to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;", "So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,", "Comes home again, on better judgement making.", " Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,", " In sleep a king, but waking no such matter." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Farewell and Defiance to Love", "author": "John Clare", "lines": [ "Love and thy vain employs, away", "From this too oft deluded breast!", "No longer will I court thy stay,", "To be my bosom's teazing guest.", "Thou treacherous medicine, reckoned pure,", "Thou quackery of the harassed heart,", "That kills what it pretends to cure,", " Life's mountebank thou art.", "", "With nostrums vain of boasted powers,", "That, ta'en, a worse disorder leave;", "An asp hid in a group of flowers,", "That bites and stings when few perceive;", "Thou mock-truce to the troubled mind,", "Leading it more in sorrow's way,", "Freedom, that leaves us more confined,", " I bid thee hence away.", "", "Dost taunt, and deem thy power beyond", "The resolution reason gave?", "Tut! Falsity hath snapt each bond,", "That kept me once thy quiet slave,", "And made thy snare a spider's thread,", "Which een my breath can break in twain;", "Nor will I be, like Sampson, led", " To trust thy wiles again.", "", "I took thee as my staff to guide", "Me on the road I did pursue,", "And when my weakness most relied", "Upon its strength it broke in two.", "I took thee as my friendly host", "That counsel might in dangers show,", "But when I needed thee the most", " I found thou wert my foe.", "", "Tempt me no more with rosy cheeks,", "Nor daze my reason with bright eyes;", "I'm wearied with thy painted freaks,", "And sicken at such vanities:", "Be roses fine as eer they will,", "They, with the meanest, fade and die,", "And eyes, though thronged with darts to kill,", " Share like mortality.", "Feed the young bard, that madly sips", "His nectar-draughts from folly's flowers,", "Bright eyes, fair cheeks, and ruby lips,", "Till muses melt to honey showers;", "Lure him to thrum thy empty lays,", "While flattery listens to the chimes,", "Till words themselves grow sick with praise", " And stop for want of rhymes.", "", "Let such be still thy paramours,", "And chaunt love's old and idle tune,", "Robbing the spring of all its flowers,", "And heaven of all her stars and moon,", "To gild with dazzling similes", "Blind folly's vain and empty lay:", "I'm sobered from such phantasies,", " So get thee hence away.", "", "Nor bid me sigh for mine own cost,", "Nor count its loss, for mine annoy,", "Nor say my stubbornness hath lost", "A paradise of dainty joy:", "I'll not believe thee, till I know", "That sober reason turns an ape,", "And acts the harlequin, to show", " That cares in every shape,", "", "Heart-achings, sighs, and grief-wrung tears,", "Shame-blushes at betrayed distress,", "Dissembled smiles, and jealous fears,", "Are nought but real happiness:", "Then will I mourn what now I brave,", "And suffer Celia's quirks to be", "(Like a poor fate-bewilder'd slave,)", " The rulers of my destiny.", "", "I'll weep and sigh wheneer she wills", "To frown, and when she deigns to smile", "It shall be cure for all my ills,", "And, foolish still, I'll laugh the while;", "But till that comes, I'll bless the rules", "Experience taught, and deem it wise", "To hold thee as the game of fools,", " And all thy tricks despise." ], "linecount": "80" }, { "title": "Farewell", "author": "John Clare", "lines": [ "Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river", "And the flags where the butter-bump hides in for ever;", "Farewell to the weedy nook, hemmed in by waters;", "Farewell to the miller's brook and his three bonny daughters;", "Farewell to them all while in prison I lie--", "In the prison a thrall sees nought but the sky.", "", "Shut out are the green fields and birds in the bushes;", "In the prison yard nothing builds, blackbirds or thrushes,", "Farewell to the old mill and dash of the waters,", "To the miller and, dearer still, to his three bonny daughters.", "", "In the nook, the large burdock grows near the green willow;", "In the flood, round the moorcock dashes under the billow;", "To the old mill farewell, to the lock, pens, and waters,", "To the miller himsel', and his three bonny daughters." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "Farewell! if ever fondest prayer", " For other's weal availed on high,", "Mine will not all be lost in air,", " But waft thy name beyond the sky.", "'Twere vain to speak--to weep--to sigh:", " Oh! more than tears of blood can tell,", "When wrung from Guilt's expiring eye,", " Are in that word--Farewell!--Farewell!", "", "These lips are mute, these eyes are dry;", " But in my breast and in my brain,", "Awake the pangs that pass not by,", " The thought that ne'er shall sleep again.", "My soul nor deigns nor dares complain,", " Though Grief and Passion there rebel:", "I only know we loved in vain--", " I only feel--Farewell!--Farewell!" ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "Farewell Petition to J.C.H., Esq^Re^", "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron", "lines": [ "O THOU yclep'd by vulgar sons of Men", "Cam Hobhouse! but by wags Byzantian Ben!", "Twin sacred titles, which combined appear", "To grace thy volume's front, and gild its rear,", "Since now thou put'st thyself and work to Sea", "And leav'st all Greece to _Fletcher_ and to me,", "Oh, hear my single muse our sorrows tell,", "_One_ song for _self_ and Fletcher quite as well--", "", "First to the _Castle_ of that man of woes", "Dispatch the letter which _I must_ enclose,", "And when his lone Penelope shall say", "_Why, where_, and _wherefore_ doth my William stay?", "Spare not to move her pity, or her pride--", "By all that Hero suffered, or defied;", "The _chicken's toughness_, and the _lack_ of _ale_", "The _stoney mountain_ and the _miry vale_", "The _Garlick_ steams, which _half_ his meals enrich,", "The _impending vermin_, and the threatened _Itch_,", "That _ever breaking_ Bed, beyond repair!", "The hat too _old_, the coat too _cold_ to wear,", "The Hunger, _which repulsed from Sally's door_", "Pursues her grumbling half from shore to shore,", "Be these the themes to greet his faithful Rib", "So may thy pen be smooth, thy tongue be glib!", "", "This duty done, let me in turn demand", "Some friendly office in my native land,", "Yet let me ponder well, before I ask,", "And set thee swearing at the tedious task.", "", "First the Miscellany!--to Southwell town", "_Per coach_ for Mrs. _Pigot_ frank it down,", "So may'st them prosper in the paths of Sale,", "And Longman smirk and critics cease to rail.", "", "All hail to Matthews! wash his reverend feet,", "And in my name the man of Method greet,--", "Tell him, my Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,", "Who cannot love me, and who will not mend,", "Tell him, that not in vain I shall assay", "To tread and trace our \"old Horatian way,\"", "And be (with prose supply my dearth of rhymes)", "What better men have been in better times.", "", "Here let me cease, for why should I prolong", "My notes, and vex a _Singer_ with a _Song_?", "Oh thou with pen perpetual in thy fist!", "Dubbed for thy sins a stark Miscellanist,", "So pleased the printer's orders to perform", "For Messrs. _Longman_, _Hurst_ and _Rees_ and _Orme_.", "Go--Get thee hence to Paternoster Row,", "Thy patrons wave a duodecimo!", "(Best form for _letters_ from a distant land,", "It fits the pocket, nor fatigues the hand.)", "Then go, once more the joyous work commence", "With stores of anecdote, and grains of sense,", "Oh may Mammas relent, and Sires forgive!", "And scribbling Sons grow dutiful and live!" ], "linecount": "54" } ]