FAREWELL

Related Subjects: Absence, Parting

1. Once more, farewell!
   If e'er we meet hereafter, we shall meet
   In happier climes, and on a safer shore.—ADDISON, Cato

2. All farewells should be sudden.—BYRON, Sardanapalus

3. Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—
   A sound which makes us linger—yet—farewell!—BYRON, Childe Harold

4. Fare thee well! and if forever,
   Still forever, fare thee well.—BYRON, Fare Thee Well

5. Farewell happy fields,
   Where joy for ever dwells.—MILTON, Paradise Lost

6. The last farewell.—OVID, Metamorphoses

7. Fare thee well;
   The elements be kind to thee, and make
   Thy spirits all of comfort!—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra

8. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

9. Farewell, and stand fast.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV

10. For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!
    If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
    If not, why then this parting was well made.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

11. O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
    Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
    That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
    Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
    The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
    The royal banner and all quality,
    Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
    And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
    The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
    Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

12. Welcome ever smiles,
    And farewell goes out sighing.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

13. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet LXXXVII