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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FAREWELL Matches Found: 870 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "CHLORIS FAREWELL, I NOW MUST GO", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And she distrust me reprobate Subject(s): Farewell; Parting "CORYDON'S FAREWELL, ON SAILING IN THE LATE EXPEDITION FLEET", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell, the bell upon a ram's neck hung" Last Line: "the homefelt joys, beyond expression dear, / deserve an elegy, a parting tear" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting "FAREWELL, FAREWELL, FOND LOVE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell, farewell, fond love, under whose childish whip" Last Line: "the hollow echo shall reply, 'tis I.' farewell, farewell" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A DAKOTA IDYL, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, gray, purple, gold! Last Line: With the treasure of her heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women; South Dakota; Parting; Squaws A FAREWEL TO WORLDLY JOYES, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewel to unsubstantial joyes Last Line: Unhurt, like him, your charms I'll hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The west wind, laden with fragrance, blows Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting A FAREWELL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be happy, child. The last wild words are spoken Last Line: Forever, child, forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Farewell; Farewell; Parting; Parting A FAREWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, dear friend! May guid luck hit you Last Line: Good lord, deceive him! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour arrived! I sigh'd and said Last Line: With all that friendship would, and all that love can give! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu thys is no cheape ayre Last Line: The house to give that soule more roome in itt Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o dream of mine! Last Line: Farewell forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Future; Nightmares; Parting A FAREWELL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only in my deep heart I love you, sweetest heart Last Line: Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise A FAREWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I say, dear friends, to whom I owe Last Line: "the fittest prayer of parting: ""go with god!" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tir'd with the noysom follies of the age Last Line: Unthinking c[harle]s, rul'd by unthinking thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL TO ABBOTSFORD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home of the gifted! Fare thee well Last Line: A blessing on thee rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Parting A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ; WRITTEN ON EVE OF JOURNEY TO BRAZIL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the mountains talked together Last Line: Bless them now and evermore! Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Brazil; Farewell; Science; Brazilians; Parting; Scientists A FAREWELL TO GLENARBAC, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When grief is felt along the blood Last Line: One memory from the roebuck glen. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL TO POETRY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Arcadian scenes adieu! In cyrrha's vale Last Line: Tho' ev'ry moving trill be steep'd in tears. Subject(s): Duty; Farewell; Great Britain; Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Parting A FAREWELL TO THE WORLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "world, adieu, thou real cheat!" Last Line: Of thy everlasting reign Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FAREWELL TO TOWN, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since secret spite hath sworn my woe Last Line: Go sing the song of welaway. Subject(s): Farewell; Towns; Parting A FAREWELL TO WALES; ON LEAVING THAT COUNTRY WITH MY CHILDREN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of thy streams in my spirit I bear Last Line: Green land of my childhood, my home, and my dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Wales; Parting; Welshmen; Welshwomen A FAREWELL [TO C.E.G.], by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fairest child, I have no song to give you Last Line: One grand, sweet song. Subject(s): Farewell; Youth; Parting A FOND FAREWELL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You - why you're / just sucking Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A GOOD-BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by, my friend!' Last Line: "were this a real 'good-by'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Separation; Isolation; Parting A GOOD-BYE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was only three days ago Last Line: Could not forever last. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Parting A GOODBYE; BOURNEMOUTH, MARCH 22, 1898, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we see our dear nestor go by? Last Line: And the land you love! Subject(s): Farewell; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Old Age; Towns; Parting A KISS, by BERNARD FREEMAN TROTTER Poem Text First Line: She kissed me when she said goodbye Last Line: Good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Parting; First World War A LAST COUNSEL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not in silence borrow Last Line: To the mother-bosom creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Advice; Farewell; Grief; Solitude; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness A LEAVE-TAKING, by ARNO HOLZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His friend the watchman was still awake Last Line: But he never came back any more. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A LEAVE-TAKING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear Last Line: She would not see. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A LONG DAY, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking all this day she may be dead Last Line: Because I took away her bit of bread. Subject(s): Bread; Death; Farewell; Food & Eating; Hunger; Dead, The; Parting A LOVER, ON AN ACCIDENT NECESSITATING DEPARTURE, CONSULTS WITH REASON, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, nor backward turn your beams Last Line: The wheel of fortune, not the sphere of love. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Reason; Parting; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A MURMUR IN THE TREES TO NOTE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No fear you'll miss the road Subject(s): Forests; Farewell A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO LEAVE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome! Thrice welcome! To the year 1893 Last Line: And leave dundee some early day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Holidays; New Year; Parting A PARTING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not wake you, dear; no tears shall creep Last Line: "how could you let me sleep so long alone?" Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A PARTING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Farewell; Gratitude; Life; Love; Parting A PARTING HYMN, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's royal robes of white Last Line: Are blest and freed from every thrall. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Commencement; Farewell; Graduation; Parting A PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When will ye think of me, my friends? Last Line: So let it be. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Women; Parting A PARTING WORD, by E. LYTTLETON FOX Poem Text First Line: We've worked a little, jim, my boy Last Line: Before we say good-by. Subject(s): Commencement; Farewell; Yale University; Graduation; Parting A PROPER NEW BALLAD [ENTITLED THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL], by RICHARD CORBET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, rewards and fairies Last Line: Such justices as you! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard Variant Title(s): Farewell To The Fairies;the Fairies' Farewell Subject(s): Fairies; Farewell; Elves; Parting A PROTEST, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Last Line: Cruel, unkind! I say farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 4 Subject(s): Farewell; Heaven; Life; Love - Unrequited; Tears; Parting; Paradise A SEQUENCE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You make me think of lavender Last Line: Ah, heart's desire, once more by the old fire stretch out thy hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Admiration; Farewell; Love; Parting A SOLDIER'S FAREWELL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, farewell! 'tis an ancient tale this / call Last Line: To flower in immortality. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Parting A SONG, by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: Farewell my betty, and farewell my annie Last Line: And through the lang muir I'll think o't again. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A SONG OF DUST, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we, my love, are gone to dust Last Line: One farewell kiss before we go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting A SONG OF FAREWELL, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring will come again, dear friends Last Line: He will gather me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Variant Title(s): Death Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A THOUGHT OF HOME AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis lone on the waters Last Line: And words of farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Parting A TRUANT FROM EDEN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a mazy, sunlit garden Last Line: As sharp the clock rang out for noon! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WOMAN'S LAST WORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - the links are broken Last Line: As we do? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 11, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild words I write, and lettered in deep pain Last Line: My tumults and my joys I may proclaim. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 12, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis ended truly, truly as was best Last Line: I love thee, bless thee, dear, where'er thou go. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 5, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er the cost to me, with this farewell Last Line: With the rude fight, think not I shall relent. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting A WORD THAT MAKES US LINGER (WRITTEN IN VISITOR'S BOOK AT GOPSALL), by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind hostess mine, who raised the latch Last Line: But I can't write that dreadful word. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Parting; Words; Vocabulary ABSENCE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wanes the garish light of day, and stilly night comes on Last Line: So is thy presence to my heart, so dear art thou to me! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Parting ABSENT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse; Separation; Isolation; Parting ABSENT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away Last Line: A pack of hunting hounds of remorse! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse ABSOLUTE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Color of ancient garments. A july in shadow Last Line: A furrow, a shadow! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting ABSOLUTE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Color of ancient garments. A july in shadow Last Line: Upon the virgin plenitude of 1. %a furrow, a shadow! Subject(s): Farewell; Love AD ASTRA: 42, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Yet who so poor he may not boast of friends? Last Line: Perchance to find at last the peace of even! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting ADIEU, by THOMAS CARLYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let time and chance combine, combine Last Line: Adieu forever now. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ADIEU, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: You for whom love is a plaything, you Last Line: Light heart, empty heart, adieu! Go! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ADIEU, by ELEANOR ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY Poem Text First Line: O shepherds! Take my crook from me Last Line: My shepherds dear -- good night! Alternate Author Name(s): Singing Shepherd, The Subject(s): Farewell; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Parting ADIEU, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am far away Last Line: Behind me sinks the california shore! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ADIEU, ADIEU, MY ONLY LIFE, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: To watch me in the battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ADIEU, RYDALIAN LAURELS! THAT HAVE GROWN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or musing sits forsaken halls among Subject(s): Farewell ADVICE TO GOD, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you leave her, the woman who though you lavish Subject(s): God; Farewell; Parting AFTER LOVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O to part now, and, parting now Last Line: Stoop to become your friend! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength; Parting AFTER SA'ADI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'I do not fear the Last Line: Strength failed me Subject(s): Affliction; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Strength AH, THAT YOU ESCAPE IN THE FLASH, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source Last Line: Stretches out like a cat to let itself be defined Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of ALOHA'OE (FAREWELL TO THEE), by LYDIA KAMAKAEHA Poem Source First Line: Proudly swept the rain by the cliffs Last Line: And sip the honey from thy lips Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii AN ADIEU TO MY LANDLADY, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Mayst thou die desperate in some dirty pool Last Line: I can't forbear to flog the wicked witch. Subject(s): Farewell; Landlords & Tenants; Parting AN ANCIENT GREEK, DYING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come nearer, charon / I cannot step so far, into your boat Last Line: Ere death sets us afloat. Subject(s): Charon; Death; Farewell; Styx (river); Dead, The; Parting AN ECHO FROM WILLOW-WOOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two gazed into a pool, he gazed and she Last Line: So those hearts joined, and ah were parted so. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young married couple Subject(s): Altars; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Parting AN EPISTLE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear soul, the time is come, and we must part Last Line: Yet dare not ask a hand to lessen it. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting AN OLD OLD STORY, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Pierre was lonely Last Line: And the moon came up: a great white lily. Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Soldiers; Solitude; World War I; Parting; Loneliness; First World War AN OR, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild empty leaps? Last Line: (or one comma there) Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ANCHOR LIFTS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: An anchor lifts, a ship is leaving Last Line: The night could hear her insides turn Subject(s): Anchors; Farewell; Ships And Shipping AND AS FOR MAN, by LOREN EISELEY Poem Source First Line: In the railroad yards, leaving the city of darkness Last Line: They will start to climb then, they will have had enough of waiting, and as for man, he will not be Subject(s): Farewell; New York City; Railroads AND YOU, ONLY A NUMBER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cropped out of the picture. %vice versa Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Farewell ANGEL ISLAND POETRY, by EMMA GEE Poem Source First Line: Across from alcatraz island was another kind of prison Last Line: And avenge %past wrongs Subject(s): Abandonment; Farewell; Immigrants; Sacrifices ANONYMOUS OLD POEM (1), by SU WU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I bound my hair and became your wife Last Line: If you die, I will think of you forever Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell ANONYMOUS OLD POEM (2), by SU WU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh and blood join as branch to leaf Last Line: I want you to stay and pour it out, %solace of a lifetime's closeness Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell ANTICIPATORY GRIEVING, by JANE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Second to the last day of the workshop Last Line: We will, I mutter. Tomorrow, we will Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Vacation APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude AS A DECADENT PASSES, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: Bid the dawn come; the moonlight is too pale Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet. Subject(s): Dawn; Farewell; Life; Moon; Sunrise; Parting AS EARTH BEGINS TO END, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I reach out my hand and it sinks through you like soft fruit Last Line: Or button the body's last, unbuttonable coat Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of ASOLANDO: ROSNY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe, he went galloping into the war Last Line: Rosny, rosny! Subject(s): War; Farewell; Parting ASSEVERATIVE FAREWELL, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Misery loves company, and aye Last Line: Not to fall into this vertigo alone Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Pain ASTRAEA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I avail no more, o men! With you Last Line: To kiss (ah, with what sorrow!) all my dead. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Farewell; Kisses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Parting AT FAREWELL, by GEORGE W. BERGQUIST Poem Text First Line: So take my vows and throw them to the wind Last Line: That mine will die its love-death when you go. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AT PARTING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me one more clasp of thy hand Last Line: No more my sad soul ravage. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AT PARTING, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Now must we go our separate ways, beloved Last Line: "and breathes in tranquil rapture, ""here is peace!""?" Subject(s): Farewell; Wellesley College; World War I; Parting; First World War AT PARTING, by HO SUN Poem Source First Line: The traveler's heart has a hundred thoughts already Last Line: The river darkens, rain about to fall; %waves turn white as the wind comes up Subject(s): Farewell AT PARTING, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time for you to go has come at last Last Line: And pray to god that you will not—look back! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AT PARTING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And you could leave me now Last Line: "I had another garden once, my dear""." Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AT PARTING, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: She caught my eyes and held them with her own Last Line: Yet from my pisgah I had view'd her soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AT PARTYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The night is silent, love, and here beside thee Last Line: Ah, holy, holy moment of farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love; Silence; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness AT THE TERMINAL, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is perched on the wrist in fond farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AU REVOIR, MISS JO, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Must you go, miss jo? Last Line: Don't go, miss jo. Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting AUBADE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake Subject(s): Farewell; Japan; Parting; Japanese AUBADE, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake Last Line: The heart of standing is we cannot fly Subject(s): Farewell; Japan AUBADE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: I lie in bed the way animals Last Line: Watching you leave it all behind %for me Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude AUF WIEDERSEHEN, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And until then, brave soul, farewell Last Line: Auf wiedersehen Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AUTOGRAPHS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is blood: close with your lover and bite down Last Line: P.S. Have a wonderful summer and a wonderful life Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Sex AUTUMN MESSAGES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: The flowers that as they fade fling parting kisses tender Last Line: That I should care for thee! Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Seasons; Fall; Parting AWAY!, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I out walking Last Line: From having died Subject(s): Farewell; Parting AWAY, WITH JANE BOWLES, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gong away is often a formal statement of intent Subject(s): Farewell; Bowles, Jane (1917-1973); Parting BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'THE HEALTHS', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, faith, since I'm parting, and that god knows when Last Line: Each health still going round. Subject(s): Farewell; Toasts; Parting BALLADE OF FAREWELL, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New roads to fare, new toils to overthrow Last Line: And bid at last a long farewell to all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Farewell; Parting BAYARD TAYLOR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Can one so strong in hope, so rich in bloom Last Line: With aims as pure strive faithful to the end. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Dead, The; Parting BEFORE PARTING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A month or twain to live on honeycomb Last Line: Worth patience to regret. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting BEFORE SAILING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lean closer, darling, let thy tender heart" Last Line: "we are not sundered, though farewell be said" Subject(s): Absence;farewell;kisses;love; Separation;isolation;parting BEFORE THE TEARS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You looked as sad as an eclipsed moon Last Line: So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Pain; Tears; Parting; Suffering; Misery BEFORE WHEN YOU LEFT YOU WOULD ALWAYS FORGET, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Forgetfulness BEHOLD THE HOUR (1), by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the hour, the boat, arrive! Last Line: "o tell me, does she muse on me?" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting BEHOLD THE HOUR (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the hour, the boat arrive Last Line: "o tell me, does she muse on me!" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting BETWEEN TWO WORLDS; PARTING FOR AUSTRALIA, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here sitting by the fire Last Line: In life or death are nearer than they know. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Farewell; Parting BIDDING ADIEU TO A SINGSONG GIRL NOW BOUND FOR A NUNNERY, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Washing off rouge and powder, you bid farewell to chu terrace Last Line: The firs and cypress by the imperial tombs will sooner or later turn to ash Subject(s): Convents; Farewell BIDDING FAREWELL ON ANOTHER'S BEHALF, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: I recall the time when the lotus bloomed Last Line: I would fain break its pole and oars Subject(s): Farewell BIDDING FAREWELL TO MRS. CHANG, WIFE OF A FELLOW OFFICIAL OF TONGYIN, by CHEN DEYI Poem Source First Line: Flapping banners move our hearts as we say goodbye Last Line: Looking at each other, we only only pick up cup after cup of wine Subject(s): Farewell BIRTHDREAM (5), by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Just before dawn my father came to say goodbye Last Line: A golden song from stone Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Farewell; Fathers BLACK-EYED SUSAN, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the downs the fleet was moored Last Line: "adieu!"" she cried; and waved her lily hand." Variant Title(s): Sweet William's Farewell To Black-eyed Susan Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Ocean BLUE STREAM, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Blue stream, don't show off your speed Last Line: Slow yourself, rest, then go Variant Title(s): Kisiang Poe Subject(s): Absence; Brooks; Farewell; Valleys BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; India; Parting BOARDING: 3. THE DIVORCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We get measured and weighted in the spring Last Line: And it is never like that again, lustrous silk, shaking Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters BOLERO OF THE THIRD GOODBYE, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sing well Last Line: Sing well, mi cielo, sing well Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BON VOYAGE, by VICTOR NOEL Poem Source First Line: What a strange season it is Last Line: Under this face of somber mood? Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages BONNIE MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go fetch to me a pint o' wine Last Line: It's leaving thee, my bonnie mary! Variant Title(s): Before Parting;a Farewell;my Bonnie Mary;the Silver Tassie;my Bonie Mary Subject(s): Farewell; Glasses (tumblers); Parting BOUDOIR DREAM, by ZHU WUXIA Poem Source First Line: The cold frosty dust flies swiftly while the water clock drip is slow Last Line: Where can I find the source to light up my longing? Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell BRIDE'S FAREWELL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell mother! Tears are streaming Last Line: All beloved ones, -fare ye well! Subject(s): Discontent; Farewell BRIGHT IN THE EAST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By tens and thousands the stars go out Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING: 15, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to my grandfather's to say good-bye Last Line: Doomed by his ignorance to stumble and blunder Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Farewell CANCION, by FRANCISCO DE BORJA Poem Source First Line: Ye laughing streamless, say Last Line: Whither is she going? Subject(s): Farewell CANCION, by JUAN DE MENA Poem Source First Line: As I upon my pallet lie Last Line: To the breast I'm loving so Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Memory CANTILENA AND CRY OF ADIEU ON THE HILL OF THE MANOR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A last song? Flushing all the sky dawn like a rose-bud doth un Last Line: "the foremost poet of france if only I could find the time." Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Spring; Parting CASUALTIES: 12. RETURN HOME, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Together with chris I brought him home Last Line: A number of papers I did not dare declare Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Farewell; Homecoming; Hunting CASUALTIES: 15. EXODUS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They flee the altar who in Last Line: The miracle of a generation Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Escapes; Farewell CHANCE TO MEET IS DIFFICULT, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source Last Line: O green bird, seek, seek her out Subject(s): Farewell CHANSON; AFTER PIERRE REVERDY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When she wouldn't be there Last Line: Getting very bored now all alone by itself Subject(s): Farewell; Parting CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel CHIPPEWA MUSIC: MY LOVE HAS DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A loon Last Line: Can I see him Subject(s): Farewell;love - Loss Of; Parting CHIRI MOUNTAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The sight of the snow-covered mountain Last Line: Oh! Chiri mountain, %chiri mountain Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Human Rights; Love CITY SUNSETS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Compassionately, tenderly, they throw Last Line: Bathed in light! Subject(s): Cities; Farewell; Travel; Urban Life; Parting; Journeys; Trips CLOISTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last light of a july evening drained Last Line: And the nothing it cares for me Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farewell; Love COLONEL TIL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We have seen scores of magnates come Last Line: Colonel til! Subject(s): Baseball; Farewell; Praise; Sports; Sportsmanship; War; Parting COMB, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: I know, the rooster tosses back Last Line: And when we part, we part Subject(s): Brothers; Farewell COME NOT IN BLACK, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Come not in black when you say, 'farewell Last Line: I shall choose to remember you. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting CONSENT, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: We learned to live with the departures Last Line: Try in vain to reconcile that schedule %with ours Subject(s): Farewell CRASH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He joyrides through all she has to say Last Line: Begins to smile Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Pain CROSSING OVER, by BENJAMIN HOLLANDER Poem Source First Line: (march 13-19) %(march 19-24) %the doctor's name: zohar Last Line: We don't know who the book of who are was %was for %such the letters are Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Death; Disappeared Persons; Faith; Farewell; Memory; Sons CRUEL SPITE, by ANNE BOLEYN Poem Text First Line: Defiled is my name full sore Last Line: Ye seek for that can not be found. Alternate Author Name(s): Bullen, Anne Subject(s): Farewell; Parting CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON A PARTING KISS, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So would a soul, if that it did but know Last Line: I may not know, which kiss shall be my last. Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Love; Parting DAFFODIL POEM, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the cloud on its blue bicycle Last Line: Just as it began to snow. Subject(s): Daffodils; Farewell; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God damn it, / at last I am going to dance on your grave, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Divorce; Farewell; Money; Dancing & Dancers; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones DARK HARBOR: 16, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, as someone has said, that in Subject(s): Farewell; Parting DAWN SONG, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth is dark and grey Last Line: On the level light of dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dawn; Farewell; Sunrise; Parting DEATH SPELL FOR A DEPARTING LOVER, by KATE BRAVERMAN Poem Source First Line: We are good at opening dialogue Last Line: Digging in under your skin %in a way you will never forget Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women DECEMBER LAKE, by EDYTHE BARRETT GOELTZ Poem Text First Line: Each wave whispered of a departed summer Last Line: And meet it as one. Subject(s): Cold; December; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness DECIMA: 2, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What frail sympathy long past Last Line: Know to pluck his starry crown. Subject(s): Farewell DEPARTURE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beech leaves caught in a moment gust Last Line: Our casual anglian train. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting DEPARTURE, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is standing on a railroad platform Last Line: The train is waiting with its breath of ashes Subject(s): Farewell; Fathers; Railroads DEPARTURE, by ADELAIDE HINKLE Poem Text First Line: How can I go before the grapes are purple Last Line: You have the wind, and sea gulls, and the lake. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting DEPARTURE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say I have to go away soon Last Line: Thanks to everybody Subject(s): Farewell DEPARTURE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's little I care what path I take Last Line: "there goes the kettle -- I'll make the tea." Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting DEPARTURE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The figs on the fig tree in the yard are green; Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness DEPARTURE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So am I from the town departed Last Line: Is but for one who stayed away. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting DEPARTURE DAY, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: It is the day to leave %this cabin nestled in the mountains Last Line: A slow departure %I don't mind Subject(s): Farewell DEPARTURE FROM GRENADA, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Such a crush to push through Last Line: Without even iron over the neck, %wind with a king's grating voice Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Grenada (island); Solitude DEPARTURE POEM, by MATSUO MUNEFUSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn ending Last Line: Clamshells on the beach Alternate Author Name(s): Basho; Matsuo Basho Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell; Seasons DEVOLUTION, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: One january afternoon %the chimney will inhale its sweet smoke Last Line: Waiting for someone %to connect their bright dots Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farewell; Past DIALOGUE, BETWEEN CRAB AND GILLIAN, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Where oxen do low and apples do grow Last Line: And so you may ring the bells. Subject(s): Conversation; Farewell; Hunting; Plague; Towns; Parting; Hunters DIALOGUE: LUCASTA, ALEXIS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, alexis, what this parting is Last Line: But time nor fate can part us joined thus. Subject(s): Farewell; Togetherness; Parting DISENCHANTED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time has come, as I knew it must Last Line: Or a god of common clay. Subject(s): Farewell; Love – Loss Of DISTANCE TRAVELED, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hoist sail, little bark of my wit! Last Line: At the foot of the mountain. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Parting; Ocean; Journeys; Trips DISTANT SONG, by HENRY SPIESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate and downcast air Last Line: Dwells? Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Parting DOLLS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said: 'I am too old to play with dolls' Last Line: My little children... Goodbye... Goodbye. Subject(s): Children; Farewell DOUBLE SEVENTH, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: The mother-of-cloud screen reflects the glare of crystal Last Line: Let us only lament the deep sorrow of impending parting Subject(s): Farewell DOUBLE SPHERE, CLOVEN SPHERE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The black clouds swell up around the setting sun Last Line: Taking us over the horizon into atmosphere. Subject(s): Farewell; Love Affairs; Winter; Parting DRIMEH KUNDAN, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My dearest child, now let me speak not to you but for you Last Line: And his thoughts spread like the wish-fulfilling leaves. %last, may the two of us soon meet Subject(s): Farewell EAST GATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He went out east gate Last Line: I cannot stay here forever! Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell ECHOES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still the angel stars are shining Last Line: Cry farewell, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Farewell; Night; Voices; Parting; Bedtime ECHOES: 42, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wink from hesper, falling Last Line: Never good-bye. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Is It Goodbye? Subject(s): Farewell; Parting EDEN IS THAT OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But discover it no more Subject(s): Home; Farewell; Memory EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MOMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young married couple Last Line: Filling the world with their thunderous music Subject(s): Altars; Farewell; Paintings And Painters ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement ELEGY FOR MY BROTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll walk awhile, maybe as high as the tree line Last Line: And watch the door now being closed behind you... Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Half-brothers; Dead, The; Parting ELEGY: 12. HIS PARTING FROM HER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since she must go, and I must mourn, come night Last Line: As I will never look for less in you. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting EMPEROR OF CHINA, TEARS, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: After the dinner my parents' old friends Last Line: She waves farewell; I'd been afraid of that Subject(s): Farewell; Freedom; Singing And Singers EMPTY ROOMS 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The dripping tap. Keepsakes in the drawer. Glowing coals. The cat's nest on Last Line: Going? Your hand's half-raised to greet or wave goodbye, like this Subject(s): Absence; Farewell EN ROUTE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore art thou strange Last Line: Dear land, take my tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians END OF WINTER: ODYSSEAS ELYTIS (1911-1996), by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Everything I love %is forever born Last Line: The owl is gone. His fire burns on Subject(s): Farewell ESSAY ON DEPARTURE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when you leave, and no one's left behind Subject(s): Farewell; Parting EVERLASTING FAREWELLS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewells!' o what a word! Last Line: That yet behold the terror of his dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859); Farewell; Parting EXEUNT, by ANDREW ZAWACKI Poem Source First Line: Much is coming to an end, that's the overriding concern, and these Last Line: Settle the lactic accounts. Like it or not, you have a hand in all this Subject(s): Farewell; Nature EXILES, by VINCENT JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Text First Line: The sick crusader watches Last Line: In the dead glare at the well. Alternate Author Name(s): O'suilleabhain, Sean Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAILURE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o arm of the lord! Last Line: But the failure of the lord! Subject(s): Failure; Farewell; God; War; Parting FANNY'S REMOVAL IN 1714, by JOHN WINSTANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Poor fanny! Wretched girl, alas! Last Line: And so, to clear herself in time, I leave her. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAR ACROSS THE SEA, MY LOVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You will be left, my love Last Line: I have to leave you soon Subject(s): Farewell FAR-AWAY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When seated in my easy chair Last Line: Lost in the southern sea. Subject(s): Commuters; Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Travel; Parting; Oceania; Journeys; Trips FARE WELL, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motions of waking trouble winter air Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My pilgrim staff is close at hand Last Line: On green banks of the spree? Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Against white buda's walls a vine Last Line: "so melts my heart in thine, my dear" Subject(s): "budapest, Hungary;farewell;" Parting FAREWELL, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have culled this twig of heather Last Line: And remember that I wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, shrink not from the word 'farewell' Last Line: May meet -- to part no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by LAURA AGNES DEVINE Poem Text First Line: My native land, farewell! Last Line: My native land, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Go, dearest one, nor think my heart Last Line: Has been thy spirit's bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER Poem Text First Line: Each dying day, life comes to some new end Last Line: Of long-set suns, and rainbow-wreatht in tears. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Such prayers as angels breathe Last Line: My last, my lost sunbeam! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting FAREWELL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When eyes are beaming Last Line: Of those that bid farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, whoe'er hast travell'd to the goal Last Line: Sink unregarded in forgetfulness! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by LODEWIJK (LOU) A. M. LICHTVELD Poem Source First Line: So, like I say, that's it Last Line: I not coming back, man. Too late Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o eager faces that surround me Last Line: Shrine of dead dream! O temple of my tears! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting FAREWELL, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the deep roar of the aegean main Last Line: Eubœa's neighbor, athens! Farewell, sea! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' the fading day Last Line: "what fate befell." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell!' another gloomy word Last Line: Without it? Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Language; Poetry & Poets; Parting; Destiny; Words; Vocabulary FAREWELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether we've far withdrawn Last Line: May not separate a span. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell! From thee Last Line: So long I may not stay. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Tis sad to part Last Line: Are living memories of your stay. Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting FAREWELL (1), by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is buried and done with Last Line: The sorrow of thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL ADDRESS AT THE ARGYLE HALL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow citizens of dundee Last Line: And prosper them in all their undertakings by night and by day. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Parting FAREWELL AND HAIL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wave you farewell! O woods Last Line: Never farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL BY THE RIVER IN LATE SPRING, by ZHAO CAIJI Poem Source First Line: A wave of tidal sounds descends the rocks Last Line: Do not hold fast the boat on its way to the spring river Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL FOR MR. LI, BUREAU DIRECTOR, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: A phoenix leaves his mate as wutong-blossoms fall Last Line: Half his lyrics are mixed with elegies Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell FAREWELL OF A VIRGINIA SLAVE MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS SOLD INTO BONDAGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone - sold and gone Last Line: Woe is me, my stolen daughters! Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers; Slavery; Social Protest; Parting; Serfs FAREWELL OF AN OLD MAN, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No peace or quiet in the countryside Last Line: Will crush a man Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Farewell; Old Age FAREWELL ON AN AUTUMN NIGHT, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Holding hands, we are without words Last Line: For I think of following the waves Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL OUR FATHERS' LAND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell our fathers' land Last Line: Then farewell our fathers' land, &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips FAREWELL SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy night is gath'ring fast Last Line: Farewell, the bonnie banks of ayr! Subject(s): Ayr (river), Scotland; Farewell; Parting FAREWELL SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The brown and ruddy apples and the gold on every tree Last Line: "I'll laugh with my new lover and not think of you at all!" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL TO A FRIEND, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: The water country's reeds and rushes, night, covered with frost Last Line: My dreams of you, dim as the distant frontier? Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL TO A LOVER, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your body was my temple Last Line: Where ripen the bitter-sweet fruits in gethsemane's garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Love Affairs; Parting FAREWELL TO BROTHER JONATHAN, by UNKNOWN+23 Poem Source First Line: Farewell! We must part; we have turned from the land Last Line: To the path through the valley and %shadow of death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Farewell; Patriotism; U.s. - History FAREWELL TO CYNTHIA, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you bewitched? Or don't you care Last Line: Some day I'll get you! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Poetry & Poets; Parting FAREWELL TO EARTH, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Last Line: Until then—farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death; Farewell; Heaven; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Dead, The; Parting; Paradise FAREWELL TO ELIZA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From thee, eliza, I must go Last Line: And thine that latest sigh! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL TO ETNA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great mountain, swathed in blue with foamy crest Last Line: May counsel with my soul to rival his. Subject(s): Farewell; Mountains; Soul; Tears; Parting; Hills; Downs (great Britain) FAREWELL TO FRANCE, by SARAH HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: O land of elegance, where every grace Last Line: Where hate and furious zeal my native shores deform. Subject(s): Farewell; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Parting; Mary Stuart FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever Last Line: More than this I scarce can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO ITALY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave thee, beauteous italy! No more Last Line: And light us to our chamber at the grave. Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians FAREWELL TO J. R. LOWELL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, for the bark has her breast to the tide Last Line: As we empty our hearts of the blessings they hold. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farewell; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets; Parting FAREWELL TO LIN HONG, by ZHANG HONGQIAO Poem Source First Line: At the head of my bed crickets weep in the autumn wind Last Line: In the grave, message-carrying wild geese should be few Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL TO LOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once the life that ran in my veins was stronger Last Line: Losing ronsard now. Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Love; Parting FAREWELL TO MY LYRE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lyre of my soul! The parting hour draws nigh Last Line: Lyre of my soul, adieu! A long adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Harps; Musical Instruments; Parting; Lyres FAREWELL TO NANCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae fond kiss, and then we sever Last Line: Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Variant Title(s): Song;a Fond Kiss Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting FAREWELL TO POESY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet poesy, why art thou dumb? Last Line: The poet dies, his heart doth bleed. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting FAREWELL TO TAOIST SCHOLAR HSU ON HIS WAY TO IMPERIAL PALACE, by WEI YE Poem Source First Line: To receive %the emperor's summons Last Line: The simple world Subject(s): Farewell; Zen Buddhism FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired Last Line: To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sorrow Stays Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO THE MAIDEN, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: If the body's a text Last Line: Simply by following a life Subject(s): Bodies; Farewell FAREWELL TO THE MUSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou power! Who hast ruled me through infancy Last Line: The present -- which seals our eternal adieu. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL TO THE REVEREND HUAI KU GOING ROAMING .. HANGCHOU, by WEI YE Poem Source First Line: Just the day Last Line: We'll look into joining %the white lotus order Subject(s): Farewell; Zen Buddhism FAREWELL TO THE REVEREND WU YANG RETURNING TO CHUNG-T'IAO, by WEI YE Poem Source First Line: Lofty and far Last Line: I think you'll start pacing %back and forth Subject(s): Farewell; Zen Buddhism FAREWELL! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell FAREWELL, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Farewell! The voice you hear Last Line: Farewell! Save memory of you! Subject(s): Courage; Farewell FAREWELL, O EGYPT!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The pink-pearl blush of dawn crept o'er our / barge Last Line: Yet diviner thou—through every century. Subject(s): Egypt; Farewell; History; Parting; Historians FAREWELLS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are so sad to say: no poem tells Last Line: "their hearts may break, breathing, ""farewell fore'er." Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELLS FROM PARADISE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! The flow of the four rivers Last Line: Ye shall hear nevermore! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FATE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As two proud ships upon the pathless main Last Line: So we two parted. Shall we meet again? Subject(s): Boats;dreams;farewell;ships & Shipping; Nightmares;parting FAUST BOOK: FAUST AND MEPHISTOPHELES MAKE THEIR ADIEUS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We too can more in a mysterious way Last Line: But then, I'm used to missing Subject(s): Devil; Farewell; Faust FAUST BOOK: FAUST'S FAREWELL TO HIS FRIENDS, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We'd all had formal invitations. Last Line: Yes, it was a sorry business Subject(s): Farewell; Faust FEELINGS ON PARTING, by ZHANG YUNIANG Poem Source First Line: Gazing out to the sky's emptiness, the distance of the trees Last Line: How often has she felt her soul melting Subject(s): Farewell FEROR INGENTI CIRCUMDATA NOCTE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sound or sight, no voice or vision came Last Line: Too roughly tuned to feel thy last farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FINAL MEETING; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I dressed in my very best Last Line: Banked in the gutters with old snow. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Dead, The; Parting; Feminism FINAL SOLUTION: JOBS, LEAVING, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They would leave Last Line: The women were so angry Subject(s): Migrant Labor; Chicanos; Farewell; Labor & Laborers FIRE AND WATER, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: After you bathed Last Line: Against my burning face Subject(s): Absence; Farewell FLEETING YOUTH, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: Frail, round-eyed youth surveys in ecstasy Last Line: Her spread her glistening wings and flit away! Subject(s): Farewell; Youth; Parting FLIGHT FROM GRANADA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was crying in granada Last Line: For what is life to leave when such a crown %is cast away? Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Granada, Spain; Grief FLORENCE MACCARTHY'S FAREWELL TO HER ENGLISH LOVER, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seem to tread the self-same street Last Line: That sigh to me from lands not thine. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting FOR BLITHER FIELDS AND BRAVER BOWERS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This bosom will be cold! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Birds; Love - Complaints; Home; Farewell FOR EVER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He heard it first upon the lips of love Last Line: "she said, ""goodbye forever." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FOR LIN TIANSU AT PARTING, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: With fishing gear and tea-things in my light boat Last Line: The lake and hills cannot express the autumn of this moment Subject(s): Farewell FOR THE PICTURE, 'THE LAST OF ENGLAND', by FORD MADOX BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last of england! O'er the sea Last Line: She cannot see a void, where he will be. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farewell; Paintings & Painters; Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892); Parting FOREVERMORE, by S. R. Poem Text First Line: I kissed my love a last good-by Last Line: And said good-by again. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting FORGET ME NOT, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me, when morn with trembling light Last Line: Forget me not! Subject(s): Farewell; Forgetfulness; Love - Loss Of; Parting FRAGMENT OF A SONNET. FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where man's profane and tainting hand Last Line: That load in grandeur cambria's emerald vales. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Farewell; Parting FRIEND, by RAIMBAUT DE VAQUEIRAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair friend, since that hour I took leave of thee Last Line: For soon it will be dawn. Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting FRITHIOF'S SAGA: FRITHIOF'S FAREWELL, by ESAIAS TEGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more shall I see Last Line: "what avails it? He who is born must die.'" Subject(s): Farewell; Legends, Norse; Life; Parting FROM NOW-ON?, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The family car has come Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Childhood; Parting GEORGE A. CARR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O playmate of the far-away Last Line: We played beneath the apple trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Parting GLOOMY DECEMBER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy december Last Line: Parting wi' nancy, oh, ne'er to meet mair. Subject(s): December; Farewell; Parting GO NOW', by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the touch of rain she was Last Line: And will not open again. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting GO!, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ship was waiting in the bay Last Line: As we two go. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips GODSPEED!, by JANE BELFIELD Poem Text First Line: Body o' mine - and must I lay thee low? Last Line: "godspeed!" Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Farewell; Soul; Dead, The; Parting GOE CLEED WI' SMYLIS THE CHEEK, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whair travailit saul maun gae! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Death; Farewell GOING AWAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Oh, josephine gray, are you going away? Last Line: Of a joy that shall never forsake us! Subject(s): Farewell; Longing; Parting GONE AWAY BLUES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, when you are in your last extremity Last Line: By-by, by-by, by-by Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GONE, BUT HERE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was here, and she is gone Last Line: Of life be done? Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Music & Musicians; Parting; Male-female Relations GOOD NIGHT, by HESTER A. BENEDICT Poem Text First Line: Good night, dear friend! I say good night to thee Last Line: To hear again her low good-night! Good-night! Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting GOOD NIGHT! GOOD NIGHT!, by JOHN HOLMES (1904-1962) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Curse the tongue in my head Last Line: Let this one have an end! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BY ER HOWDY-DO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say good-by er howdy-do Last Line: Say good-by er howdy-do! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BYE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fools! Must we ever quarrel with our fate Last Line: "good-bye." Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BYE, by WILFRID T. BROPHY Poem Text First Line: This night we meet to say good - bye Last Line: "I can but say a soft, ""auf wiedersehen." Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BYE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The orchards hang heavy to the top of the slope Last Line: And I kneel there tonight. Dear, there is no good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BYE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's say 'good-bye' Last Line: Within the heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BYE, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah yes, sweet love, look out, look up Last Line: Good-bye, good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting GOOD-BYE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye:-' the whisper softly fell Last Line: "for evermore—""good-bye." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-BYE MY FANCY!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye my fancy! / farewell dear mate, dear love! Last Line: Good-bye -- and hail! My fancy. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-NIGHT, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night. Good-night. Ah, good the night Last Line: Good-night. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Night; Religion; Parting; Bedtime; Theology GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man GOOD-NIGHT, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down Last Line: But it is all friends' night, a traveler's good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOOD-NIGHT MOTHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, mother. Thou dost sleep Last Line: Thine the slumber; mine, the night. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sleep; Dead, The; Parting GOODBYE, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She stood at the window> there was Subject(s): Anger; Farewell; Parting GOODBYE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We say it for an hour or for years Last Line: "good-by." Variant Title(s): Good-by Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOODBYE, by NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye to tree and tower Last Line: My last goodbye. Subject(s): Farewell; Ireland; Parting; Irish GOODBYE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so goodbye, my love, my dear, and so goodbye Last Line: Than mine that did refuse you. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOODBYE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some day you shall find me Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GOODBYE - TO MY MOTHER, by MARGARET LARKIN Poem Text First Line: Let not your heart be altogether lonely Last Line: Good-bye! Good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers; Parting GOODBYE SONG, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: Alas, I have one thing to tell my father's igede people Last Line: Saying a goodbye word is nothing like your absence itself %goodbye, I am going! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Igede (african People) GOODBYES, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: I've heard that even 'men of feeling' Last Line: The zen man's heart is empty, yes, %of all but this Subject(s): Farewell; Zen Buddhism GORE-HOUSE LEFT FOR PARIS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lilacs we shall meet no more Last Line: And clasp afresh the hand held forth by thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GORGIO LAD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Gorgio lad, my tribe are waiting Last Line: Gorgio lad, good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes GRASS WIDOW, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And of course I cried Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GREEN THUMB, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Subject(s): Relationships; Farewell; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness GREETING AND DEPARTURE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart throbbed high: to horse, away then! Last Line: To love, ah gods, what happiness! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER Poem Source First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues GREY DAWN, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: Grey in the sky and grey in my soul Last Line: And cataclysmic crash Subject(s): Farewell HA! HA! HO! HO!, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the man from walla-walla, 'you may think that I am loco' Last Line: "so it's 'bye-bye, walla-walla, I am off to pago-pago'!" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting HAIL AND FAREWELL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The world will wear a sadder face Last Line: Hail, gracious spirit, and farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting HANS LACK-LAND, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my wife, said lack-land hans Last Line: My name will never mention. Subject(s): Farewell; Germany; Parting; Germans HAVE WE NOT MET, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Have we not met, and must we weep Last Line: Our love shall bloom beyond regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Passion; Parting HAWAII AND OAHU, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hawaii, with thy sea-washed shore Last Line: Until we meet again. Subject(s): Farewell; Hawaii; Islands Of The Pacific; Mountains; Volcanoes; Parting; Oceania; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HE BADE ME BE HAPPY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He bade me 'be happy,' he whisper'd 'forget me' Last Line: "from her who was ever my idol, my pride!" Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Love; Parting; Joy; Delight HEADED EAST, GOODBYE TO AN ELDER BROTHER, by SU MAN-SHU Poem Source First Line: Rivertown's a picture Last Line: Parting the clouds, who'll gaze out upon the tower Subject(s): Farewell; Zen Buddhism HEARTFELT FEELINGS ON SEPARATION, by ZUO FEN Poem Source First Line: From the time I left our parents Last Line: I'll express my feelings in writing Subject(s): Farewell HEARTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trinket made like a heart, dear Last Line: Over all the buried past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Parting HEAVEN AND MEMORIES, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Welcome, my beloved, to paradise! Last Line: The cloud, where 'throned in his omnipotence sits god! Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting HELEN BIDS FAREWELL TO HER DAUGHTER HERMIONE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is time before I go Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers & Daughters; Coming Of Age; Parting HERE, WITH MY KNEE UPON THY STONE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Farewell; Togetherness; Parting HIS MESSENGER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "marjorie, with the waiting face" Last Line: And her lover will be his messenger Subject(s): Farewell;love; Parting HIS PARTING FROM MRS. DOROTHY KENEDAY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I did goe from thee, I felt that smart Last Line: And love will swear't, my dearest did not so. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting HOLY THURSDAY, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're kindly here, to let us linger so late Subject(s): Maundy Thursday; Restaurants; Farewell; Waiters & Waitresses; Cafes; Diners; Parting HOMAGE TO MAX JACOB, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye sting and all my columbines Last Line: Not paris. Subject(s): Farewell; Jacob, Max (1876-1944); Parting HOPE DEFERRED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: His hand at last! By his own fingers writ Last Line: "now to my daily tasks I'll singing go, / fed by the music of this wayworn sheet" Subject(s): Farewell;love; Parting HOW LONG, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If on my grave the summer grass were growing Last Line: So long, dear love, so long! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting HYMN TO THE NIGHT WIND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unbridled spirit, throned upon the lap Last Line: In terror, not in love, we sing of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting I HAVE DRIFTED ALONG THIS RIVER, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor stoop to the flower Subject(s): Nature; Farewell I WONDER, LOVE, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: I wonder, love, are you Last Line: And that the most certain thing is goodbye Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Kisses; Lips I'M GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Teeth of flowers, hair of dew Last Line: Not to ask for me; tell him I have gone Subject(s): Farewell; Sleep I'M WALKING OUT ON ROME, by ANTONIO PORTA Poem Source Last Line: I grab a book I hate, the long goodbye, %and throw it into the fire Subject(s): Farewell; Rome, Italy IDEA: 61, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part Last Line: From death to life thou mightst him yet recover. Variant Title(s): "valediction;love's Parting;love's Farewell;come, Let Us Kisse And Parte;farewell;the Parting;""since Ther's No Helpe, Come Let Us Kisse And Part""; Subject(s): Farewell; Goodere, Anne; Love; Parting IMPROMPTU UPON LEAVING SOME FRIENDS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, never shall my soul forget Last Line: O'er which oblivion dares not pass! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Farewell; Parting IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness IN JULY / NO GOODBYE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Part we must Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell IN THE NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight had tangled the trees Last Line: When we part, when for ever we part. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: FAREWELL DARK, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, dark gaol. You hold some better hearts Last Line: Their tools of death and darings manifold. Subject(s): Farewell; Prisons & Prisoners; Parting; Convicts INSUFFICIENCY (2), by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no one beside thee, and no one above thee Last Line: I love thee so, dear, that I only can leave thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting INVOCATION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, about-to-be-parted-from house. Subject(s): Home; Farewell; Parting IT IS IN THE LEAVING, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: It is in the leaving that the agony begins %-hope and skin stretched too far Last Line: It is in the leaving Subject(s): Farewell IVY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fare thee well, dear alma mater Subject(s): Commencement; Farewell; Ivy JACK'S BLUES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to roll up Subject(s): Farewell; Parting JE SAIS, by CHARLES T. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: If knowledge is of lovely things Last Line: That said, goodbye. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness JOURNEY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: ... Watched you / and you were turning, turning Last Line: You – light in the dark that shines beyond walls or time … Subject(s): Farewell; Parting KISS THE EYES OF PEACE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Kiss the eyes of peace, may it stream down Last Line: All. Too many blessings break a man apart Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Peace KISSING STIEGLITZ GOOD-BYE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every city in america is approached Subject(s): Farewell; Stieglitz, Alfred (1864-1946); Parting KNOWLEDGE OF APRIL, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Whatever the delicate ear dissects tonight Last Line: Knowledge of april. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Spring; Parting L'ENVOI, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN Poem Text First Line: When the time for parting comes, and the day is on Last Line: Consuming us within the splendor of the flame? Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LADY'S FAREWELL, by NUNO FERNANDEZ TORNEOL Poem Source First Line: Awake, my love, who sleep into the dawn! Last Line: And dried the waters where they came to play. %I go away in joy Subject(s): Farewell LAMENT FOR THE SAILING OF THE CRUSADE, by RINALDO D' AQUINO Poem Source First Line: Past comfort, all despairing Last Line: To lands across the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Rinaldo D'aquino Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lament; Love - Complaints; Sailors And Sailing LAMENT OF THE MASTER ERSKINE, by ALEXANDER SCOTT (1520-1590) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Depairt, depairt, depairt Last Line: I say no moir. Subject(s): Erskine, John (1509-1591); Farewell; Parting LAMENTATIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scrub woman for the old bank and jailhouse Last Line: One is of welcome; the other, farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Lament; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; World War Ii; Parting; Male-female Relations; Second World War LANDSCAPE, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some pines, a canal, a piece of sky Last Line: And how the miles reel at the wide gaze! Subject(s): Landscape; Farewell; Parting LAST FAREWELL, FR. THE PIRATE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to northmaven Last Line: And the hope would fix there, %that should anchor in heaven Subject(s): Farewell LAST THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no one to do it for me Last Line: And know contentment too! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Dead, The; Parting LAST WORDS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not 'twas so dire a crime Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LATE SPRING: PARTING FROM JUNHUI, I COMPARE THIS POEM .. WITH HIS, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: Drizzle wover with threads of mist: a doleful flute plays melodies of yizhou Last Line: Yet I rue that antares and orion never meet Subject(s): Farewell LEAVE-TAKING, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: Child %your name dies Last Line: Are severed from me %forever Subject(s): Farewell LEAVE-TAKING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old friend has departed, he is making the inevitable journey Last Line: But each of us found joy in the doing - and in the bond which endured between us Subject(s): Farewell LEAVE-TAKING NEAR SHOKU, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the roads of sanso are steep Last Line: There is no need of asking diviners. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Parting; Paths; Trails LEAVETAKING, by DANIEL BLASI Poem Source First Line: Let there be no more mention of tulips Last Line: You tend to your garden. Earth your bulbs Subject(s): Farewell; Gardens And Gardening LEAVING AN UNKNOWN CITY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That mutt with ribs showing Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips LEAVING BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The dove above the danube Last Line: The length of his country's history Subject(s): Absence; Budapest, Hungary; Farewell LEAVING BUFFALO, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others, many others, must have known Subject(s): Buffalo (city), New York; Farewell; Weather; Parting LEAVING DELOS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering star of the heaven-colored Last Line: Discordant, high up in the steel rigging Subject(s): Delos (island), Greece; Farewell; Parting LEAVING L'ATELIER - AIX-EN-PROVENCE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bare trees / smoky lavender twigs Last Line: Under the morning moon Subject(s): Aix, France; Farewell LEAVING LONGBOAT KEY; IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM SLOANE, III, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drawbridge blinks red, yawns. The airport limo Last Line: I touch my inside pockets and feel my ticket Subject(s): Farewell; Longboat Key, Florida LET HER DEPART, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her home is far, oh! Far away! Last Line: Let her depart! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LET ME GO WARM, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Hearts; Parting; Joy; Delight LET ME GO WARM, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go warm and merry still Last Line: And let the world laugh, an'it will Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Hearts LET ME PLEASE LOOK INTO MY WINDOW, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LETTING GO, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it were a contained explosion, yes, an orderly Last Line: That the voice is always there and strangely comforting Subject(s): Farewell; Freedom LIE STILL, MY DEAR, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And perish in their infancy. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LIKE A MIGRATORY BIRD, SHE UNFURLS HERSELF AMONG THE DRAPED, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: The mothers of the plaza de mayo Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Farewell; Human Rights - Argentina LINES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou camest with the coming spring! Last Line: Death falls one day like falling snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love; Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness LINES ADDRESSED TO - ON THE 29TH OF SEPTEMBER WHEN WE PARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I have watch'd thee with rapture, and dwelt on thy charms" Last Line: In fancy will wash thee once more -- my last shirt Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LINES OF THE HAND, by JULIO CORTAZAR Poem Source First Line: From a letter thrown on the table a line comes which runs Last Line: Close around the butt of a revolver Subject(s): Farewell; Travel LINES ON LEAVING A SCENE IN BAVARIA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu the woods and waters' side Last Line: Its absence may be borne. Subject(s): Bavaria; Farewell; Parting LINES WRITTEN BEFORE SEEING AN EX-LOVER WHO HAS BECOME A SEX THERAPIST, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: She's curious what advice %he gives his clients Last Line: And mouth the words good-night Subject(s): Farewell; Restaurants; Seduction; Travel LINES WRITTEN IN A BOWER, by MARY LEADBEATER Poem Text First Line: Dear, lovely bow'r, to-morrow morn Last Line: Though leaving earth for heav'n. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleton, Mary Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Dead, The; Parting LINOLEUM, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT Poem Source First Line: I've just embarked Last Line: Without first strangling that bookseller Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry And Poets; Travel LONG GOODBYE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few leaves remain Last Line: No longer remembers them Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LOVE IN DIAN'S LAP: 10. AFTER HER GOING, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The after - even! Ah, did I walk Last Line: And such sweet in my own! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LOVE IN EXILE I: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woods shake in an ague fit Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Farewell; Nature; Parting LOVE IS NOT, by SONG-I Poem Source First Line: Love is not for every lover Last Line: Then it must be Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love LOVE WE MUST PART, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, we must part now: do not let it be Subject(s): Love; Farewell; Parting LOVE: AN ELEGY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting LOVER'S TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sat today beneath the pine Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Life; Love; Soul LUTE SONG SET BY ROBERT JONES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone" Last Line: "faith, let her go, or come, or tarry" Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Farewell; Parting LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The linden blossom'd, the nightingale sung Last Line: Thou politely didst make me a curtsey polite. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting MABEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet little face, so full of slumber Last Line: Till then, farewell -- farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Happiness; Parting; Joy; Delight MADCAP LOVE, by PAUL GUEST Poem Source First Line: I am archie, made flesh, if ink can be Last Line: My home and heart, bones and bars, broken Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MADRIGAL IN TIME OF WAR, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the rivers of the midnight town Subject(s): War; Love; Farewell; Parting MAIRI'S DRAFTS: OSLO, 1085, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Olaf and erik go south when the sun Last Line: I know I love the old gods more Subject(s): Farewell; Prayer; Saint Kilda (scotland); Travel MANY MANSIONS, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last majority attained Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Farewell; Coming Of Age; Parting MARGARETAE ABITURAE, by R. A. ERIC SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: Dearest, when no more we tread Last Line: And your bars dissolve away! Subject(s): Farewell; Oxford University; Parting MARY DHU, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, sweet is the rose-bud Last Line: My mary dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting MAY QUEEN, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're pretty said the sign Last Line: Take this turn to be loved Subject(s): Farewell; Mothers And Daughters MEDITATION, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One event stands out from childhood Subject(s): Farewell; Parting MEDITATIONS IN GREAT BEALINGS CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not only while we look upon Last Line: One more look ere I part! 'tis given, and now, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Churchyards; Farewell; Gosfield Park, Essex, England; Parting MEMORIAL VERSES: 3. IN SALUTATION TO MY FATHER'S SPIRIT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, o brave and tender sage Last Line: Lost in the rapture of the cosmic soul. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise MIDNIGHT SAILING, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN Poem Text First Line: The pier is dark; and shadows creep Last Line: And she was too late to say good-bye. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting MIDNIGHT SONGS: 5, by TZU YEH Poem Source First Line: So soon. Today, love, we Last Line: Not yet, not yet, not %yet Subject(s): Farewell MIGRATION, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is our last day together Subject(s): Farewell; Parting MONKEYS WILL MISS YOU, by CAROL MICKETT Poem Source First Line: Forgetting our last night when you wouldn't touch the cat Last Line: I buy you savage bliss from the ladies room in grand junction Subject(s): Farewell; Monkeys MONOLOGUE, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, but since you Subject(s): Transience; Friendship; Careers; Farewell; Disappointment; Impermanence; Parting MONSTRUM HORRENDUM, by EDWARD FARQUHAR Poem Source First Line: Farewell titan, gorgon, typhon Subject(s): Farewell MORNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the hills the dawn is breaking Last Line: We've had our fun—so come along. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Farewell; Parting MOTETS: 5, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbyes, whistles in the dark, nods, winks, coughs Subject(s): Farewell; Parting MOTHERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like the furtive heels of %death Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Farewell; Graves; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners MOTTO, FR. ARIOSTO, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the land where the clouds love to rest Last Line: And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Farewell; Rest; Sky; Dead, The; Parting MY BROTHER SPEAKS, by MIMMO IASIELLO Poem Source First Line: I often think of it, my brother's face Last Line: On another, leaving me to fill those terrible empty shoes Subject(s): Brothers; Farewell MY DIRGE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul Last Line: So far from home to die! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness MY FAVORITE FAREWELL, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a kind of mop hanging down from the tree Last Line: My love of childish trees and light blue skies %and flowing robes. %I have to be forgiven Subject(s): Farewell MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations MY HEART'S AS GAY AS A YOUNG SUNFLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, who will shoe your pretty little foot Last Line: It'll stay right there till the day I die, %for all men to behold Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships MY LADY AND I, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a year and a day I must tarry away Last Line: A year and a day! Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Time; Unfaithfulness; Parting; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy MY LOST LOVE, by KATE VAN HORSSEN MEYLINK Poem Text First Line: My dear lost love passed by last night Last Line: In the wailing of the wind. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Parting MY MARY ANN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fare you well my own mary ann Last Line: In angel form to my mary ann Subject(s): Farewell;love;sea;ships & Shipping; Parting;ocean MY SWEET HOME IS NO LONGER MINE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And ah! When life's summer is flown-my fond home-should I Last Line: Bright symbol of future repose,-I will ever think of thee sweet %home! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Memory; Retrospection; Solitude NATURE'S FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A youth rode forth from his childhood's home Last Line: How deep were the oracles nature spoke! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Parting NE ME QUITTE PAS, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: There are french %intellectuals Last Line: Kissing another unreliable lover adieu Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Poetry And Poets; Women NEW WORLD, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half-waked I hurried down the stairs to say goodbye Last Line: For me, who went back through the frosted house to sleep. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting NIGHT AND DAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night above and night below Last Line: With the daybreak-stars—heigho. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Complaints; Parting NIGHT JOURNEY, by GREGORY ORR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the house Last Line: Bursts into flame Subject(s): Farewell; Corpses NIGHTINGALE, by GIL VICENTE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rose looks out in the valley Last Line: Sings his song of woe Subject(s): Farewell; Flowers; Love - Loss Of NO CONTINUING CITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on Last Line: "at this time next year." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting NOMAD'S STORY, by BARBARA SZERLIP Poem Source First Line: We would like to have heard his story, to have spent an afternoon with Last Line: Clothes. He was gone in a week. We never spoke with him, or knew his %name Subject(s): Farewell; Hotels; Tourists; Travel NOME HOOFER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Hello central! I rewind the tape Last Line: To plow straight ahead my slow talky way. %good-bye hoofer. The town's all yours Subject(s): Farewell; Music And Musicians; Nome, Alaska NOT NOW, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can see you Subject(s): Farewell; Parting NOW I AM A PLANT, A WEED, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Plants; Farewell; Planting; Planters; Parting NOW IS WINTER GONE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long had I known you yet in truth I knew / you not Last Line: Flushes and flowers as gilded fields in april shine. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Nostalgia; Relationships; Winter; Parting O WAE BE TO THE ORDERS THAT MARCHED MY LUVE AWA', by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O they hae nae winsome luve like mine in the wars o' germanie! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): War; Germany; Soldiers; Farewell ODES 2, 14. EHEU FUGACES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what can stay the flying years? Last Line: "I'll drink a health,"" says he." Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Time; Parting OFF TO COLLEGE, by JOSEPHINE POLLITT Poem Text First Line: She climbed into the wagon Last Line: Her shadow would not go. Subject(s): Farewell; Universities & Colleges; Parting OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery OLD POEM: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "on and on, always on and on" Last Line: And try with all my might to eat and thrive Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);farewell; Parting ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Last Line: Nor think it weakness what we feel to show. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness ON HIS ENGAGEMENT TO BE MARRIED, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Hark! The clock strikes and finishes the cycle Last Line: — u u — —'s. Subject(s): Farewell; Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON LEAVING CUBA, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl of the sea! Star of the tranquil west! Last Line: Now cleaves the waves, and flies in silence fast! Subject(s): Boats; Cuba; Farewell; Sea; Sea Voyages; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration ON LEAVING MRS. BROWN'S LODGINGS, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So goodbye, mrs. Brown Last Line: But all's one for that, since I must and will away. Subject(s): Farewell; Moving & Movers; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips ON LEAVING NEWSTEAD ABBEY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thy battlements, newstead, the hollow winds whistle; Last Line: When decay'd, may he mingle his dust with your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Newstead Abbey, England; Farewell ON MONSIEUR'S DEPARTURE, by ELIZABETH I Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I grieve, and dare not show my discontent Last Line: Or die and so forget what love ere meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Tudor, Elizabeth Variant Title(s): Self And The Otherself Subject(s): Discontent; Farewell; Love; Dissatisfaction; Parting ON PARTING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kiss, dear maid! Thy lips have left Last Line: And silent ache for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ON PARTING, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Trudge over the hill, autumn Last Line: Make sure that he is with you Subject(s): Farewell ON PARTING, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time that is recorded is not now Subject(s): Farewell; Time; Parting ON PARTING WITH THE BUDDHIST PILGRIM LING-CH'E, by LIU CH'ANG-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: From the temple, deep in its tender bamboos Last Line: Farther and farther down the green mountain Subject(s): Farewell ON SATURN, AFTER M, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound Last Line: I always knew %where I am Subject(s): Farewell ON SAYING GOODBYE, by FLORENCE ADAMS FRENCH Poem Text First Line: I wanted to live a rollicking life Last Line: Along a land-locked street! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ON TAKING LEAVE OF - , 1817 [SHORTER VERSION OF 'TO TWO SISTERS'], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know, to esteem, to love - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye of all the world beside! Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting ON THE AISLE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye to maui - to orchids on our plates Last Line: And he runs for it Subject(s): Air Travel; Farewell; Parting ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon Last Line: The bliss that once was ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE (FROM NEW YORK), by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Now in the red and opalescent sun Last Line: Against the wind and sun that struggle, madly Subject(s): Farewell; Sea Voyages; Travel ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE FROM O--, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loud beats the rain! The hollow groan Last Line: She flutters round my bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ON TOURING HER HOMETOWN, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going away to where I'm from Last Line: Last condor, last chance Subject(s): Homecoming; Farewell ONE BUMPER AT PARTING, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One bumper at parting! - though many Last Line: It dies 'mid the tears of the cup. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ONE BY ONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Few are my friends Last Line: My friends leave home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Friendship; Dead, The; Parting ONE DAY, by GRACE NOER SHERBURNE Poem Text First Line: Gold! The yellow buttercups upon the Last Line: So clear and sweet, while all the twilight world is rose and gray. Subject(s): Farewell; Night; Parting; Bedtime ONE DEPARTS EARLY, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Farewell, you say, and in departure take Last Line: I heard the frightened beating of your heart? Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ONE LEFT SORROWING, by MARTHA LYMAN SHILLITO Poem Text First Line: They talked of everything but what they Last Line: Sat dreaming hours away while hot tears fell. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting ONE PRAYER, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: And now must I lose thee, o dark-eyed love, o darling? Last Line: This once I look thee in the eyes and speak. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Widows & Widowers; Youth; Parting ONLY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: And this is the end of it all! It rounds the year's completeness Last Line: Ah me! But I think in this life of ours the bitter outweighs the sweet Subject(s): Farewell;love; Parting ORTHODOXIES 26, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: She can not cover the sadness of her silver wings, the Last Line: How to cross herself efficiently with index and third fingers Subject(s): Farewell; Greek Language OUR OWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They walk here with us, hand in Last Line: Good-by! Good-by! Good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Gossip; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones OUR PARTING, by THOMAS BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: The sun is dim; the stars deceive Last Line: To shut me out of paradise. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting OUTWARD BOUND, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Oh, homeward bound's a welcome sound Last Line: Of death's uncharted sea. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PAID VACATION, by JOAN OLIVER Poem Source First Line: I've decided to go away forever Last Line: Lives in exile Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Travel; Vacation PAIN-DANCE BEGINS, by MARK ANDREW NOWAK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Worn shoes in the days of my youth Last Line: I say it out loud, I breathe it into the world against the horizon line Subject(s): Farewell; Introspection; Pain PAIRTIN' AND MEETIN', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O nannie, dear nannie! Whan ye gaed awa' Last Line: Owre whilk the dark locust an' red maple wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTED, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even though vales and mounts may sever Last Line: Where immortality we know. Subject(s): Farewell; Immortality; Parting PARTED AND MET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not, whether such great power Last Line: By that high suffering! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTED SOULS, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must depart, but like to his last breath Last Line: Death unto us must be freedom and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no use in weeping Last Line: Future good for present ill! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, by CHUNG HAN-MO Poem Source First Line: Now so beautiful Last Line: Beyond mine %like a star in the sky Subject(s): Farewell PARTING, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me, friends, while yet we part Last Line: O tell me. Friends that are no more! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment more, the swelling sails Last Line: Within the grave a dreamless rest! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness PARTING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know how much we love Last Line: Farewell's a bitter word to say. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, by LEE SANG-HWA Poem Source First Line: Must we part? Must we, you and I? Last Line: Shall we drown into the sea and be a merman %and a mermaid rather than live apart in madness? Subject(s): Farewell PARTING, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou dost bid thy friend farewell Last Line: Night and day, regret should walk. Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting PARTING, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blue within her eyes was dim Last Line: Exulting out the flord. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Our pleasant moments fly Last Line: But makes malignant pause to see %the work of pain on earth Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote Variant Title(s): On Partin Subject(s): Farewell PARTING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from our dream we died away Last Line: How far away from paradise! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise PARTING, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! That word has broken hearts Last Line: For god is everywhere. Subject(s): Farewell; God; Parting PARTING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Truly I want to die Last Line: And royal ointment on my hair you shed.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Farewell; Love; Mythology - Classical; Parting PARTING, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strangely planned in this strange life of ours Last Line: God keep thee, love! Alas! 'twas not to be! Subject(s): Farewell; Fate; Parting; Destiny PARTING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The past is a strange land, most strange Last Line: That naught can stir or stain, like this Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farewell PARTING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me some fragment of our love Last Line: One last and deathless kiss! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting PARTING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We must not part as others do Last Line: By which alone a power is given %to live on earth, as they in heaven Subject(s): Farewell PARTING, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: I get off my horse, offer you wine Last Line: White clouds there that never end Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell PARTING, by WANG ZHIHUAN Poem Source First Line: The willows, trees of the eastern gate Last Line: I suppose because partings were many Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell PARTING, by GERTRUDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Let not your heart be altogether lonely Last Line: And leave no ridge or gulch to mark the scar. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, by ZHANG RONG Poem Source First Line: The bright clouds on the hills are gone Last Line: See the bright moon over the lonely terrace Subject(s): Farewell PARTING (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless you! God be with you still! Last Line: And faith is sight. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING AFTER PARTING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Never to part more Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Reunions; Togetherness PARTING AT QINHUAI RIVER, A PLAINTIVE POEM SENT TO QILIAN, by ZHENG RUYING Poem Source First Line: By qinhuai the new willows are yellow in the second month Last Line: Doesn't it make a lovely heart die of longing? Subject(s): Farewell PARTING CREATES BEAUTY, by HAN YONG-WOON Poem Source Last Line: Parting creates beauty Subject(s): Farewell PARTING FROM CHEN ZHONGCHUN BY THE RIPPLES OF THE JIA HILLS, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: From the jia hills the chill water flows down Last Line: A new poem entrusted to the white clouds Subject(s): Farewell PARTING FROM MR. XUE AT GUANG-LING, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are some men, their aims unfulfilled Last Line: Where again shall I share your company? Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Nature PARTING FROM SU WU, by LI LING Poem Text First Line: The good time will never come back again Last Line: And go with you right to your journey's end. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell; Parting PARTING FROM THE COURTIER SUNG, by YIN SHIH Poem Source First Line: I, a wanderer north of tu-ling Last Line: Parting is a time for thoughts, %when the raven's cry comes on the night wind Subject(s): Farewell PARTING HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When shall we meet again Subject(s): Farewell PARTING IN THE BOAT ON AN AUTUMN NIGHT, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Mist rises from the desolate grass Last Line: Seeing you off, I feel hesitant and uncertain Subject(s): Farewell PARTING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The moon elves dance upon the lake Last Line: Across the sea! Subject(s): Farewell; Longing; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Parting PARTING SONG, by THOMAS THACKERY SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not adieu, but au revoir Last Line: Then au revoir, but not adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING SORROWS OF A FRONTIER GUARD, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the service of Last Line: I must sail on Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi Subject(s): Farewell PARTING WORDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, oh! Leave me! Unto all below Last Line: Oh, yet awhile delay! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING WORDS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Howe'er it fare with me Last Line: Its warmest worshiper estrange! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, CELIA WEEPS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, my dear, for I shall go Last Line: Thou wert thus loth to part with me. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting PARTING, WITHOUT A SEQUEL, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has finished and sealed the letter Last Line: And cold as any icicle Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING, WITHOUT A SEQUEL, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has finished and sealed the letter Last Line: And all the time she stood there hot at fever %and cold as any icicle Subject(s): Farewell PARTING: 1, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not weeks, not months - years Last Line: As the stream of evidence %of my perfect innocence flows on Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Farewell PARTING: 1940, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not knowing in what season this again Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PARTING: 2, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And, as always happens in the days of final rupture Last Line: About how much we cherished one another Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Farewell PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO SECOND: 7. HOMEWARD BOUND, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Egypt, farewell! Thy desert's sand Last Line: Through straining gales, or weather fair! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PERSENTED TO CAO BIAO, PRINCE OF BAI-MA, by CAO ZHI Poem Source First Line: We greeted the emperor in cheng-ming lodge Last Line: I cease my tears and take the long road, %grasping my brush, I say farewell here Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farewell; Photography & Photographers; Pictures; Silence; Heritage; Heredity; Parting PHOTOGRAPH OF A GATHERING OF PEOPLE WAVING, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound, the whole thing Last Line: And you wave down to future generations like this Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farewell; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence PICTURES OF GOODBYE, by DOUG LAVERNE Poem Source First Line: Winter twilight is the color of goodbye Last Line: She will not return Subject(s): Absence; Farewell PIETA, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the small town where the hero was born Last Line: Walking past the next batch of tourists Subject(s): Poland; Farewell POEM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A painting with no background at all, or Last Line: The light of their eyes Subject(s): Farewell; Expressionism - Poets; Parting POEM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the full moon rises Subject(s): Farewell; Parting POEM, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember you as you were that last autumn Last Line: The dry leaves of autumn whirled in your soul Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Farewell POLYHYMNIA: SONNET TO LADY FALKLAND UPON HER GOING TO INTO IRELAND, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What happy song might my muse take in hand Last Line: And may performe your voyage, though you stay. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PRESENTED TO SOMEONE ON PARTING, by DU MU Poem Source First Line: She is graceful, lithe, and winsome Last Line: And none could compare with you Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Farewell; Yang-zhou (city), China PRINCE MADOC'S FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why lingers my gaze where the last hues of day Last Line: But my soul's quenchless fire, o my country! Is thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Wales; Parting; Welshmen; Welshwomen PROMISES, PROMISES, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am stretched out under the lean-to Subject(s): North Carolina; Kisses; Farewell; Parting PUNCH AND JUDY AND TOBY AND ALL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grindstone man is gone, with his singing grindstone Last Line: Even punch and judy and toby and all are gone. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting QUATRAINS ON VARIOUS TOPICS: 1, by WU CHUN Poem Source First Line: Day's cicadas had already brought yearning pain Last Line: And now this evening, the fireflies Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell REASON FOR MY MISTAKE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Packing to leave cancun Last Line: By whispering good-bye %instead of good night. Subject(s): Farewell RECALLING OUR PARTING, by DONG SHAOYU Poem Source First Line: I recall our parting at the willows by the bridge Last Line: Day after day counting when you'll return Subject(s): Absence; Farewell RED SWEATSHIRT, by DORIEN ROSS Poem Source First Line: Must I walk the exact path the turn occurred? 'the valley of the falling Last Line: Shirts made me weep, because you were wearing one that day Subject(s): Farewell REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more: let there be no more said Last Line: Farewell, dead love: no more the same road we fare. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Graves; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness RENUNCIATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let this goodbye of ours - this last goodbye Last Line: And cast away their key to paradise Subject(s): Farewell; Parting REQUIEM; TO THE MUSIC OF MOZART, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone art thou, in youthful sweetness Last Line: Point the path to heaven and thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Parting RETABLO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say to myself: at last, I escape the noise Last Line: From far away, cry to us about the monotonous suicide of god! Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts RETROSPECTION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: If when we parted Last Line: Leaving me nothing. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love; Separation; Isolation; Parting REWRITING THE OTHER, AND THE OTHERS, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to model the morning light Subject(s): Farewell; Parting RIDING TO THE HUNT, by WILLIAM AUGUSTINE LEAHY Poem Text First Line: String your arrow to my lips, harry lincoln Last Line: Sober death's dancing, too, at life's door. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Love; Luck; Dead, The; Parting ROGER AND DOLLY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young roger came tapping at dolly's window Last Line: Mumpaty, mumpaty, mump. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AUTO-DA-FE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See these violets, dusty tresses Last Line: So farewell! Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Cupid; Farewell; Love; Eros; Parting ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 2. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've snuff'd at every smell that has birth Last Line: Once more we may hope to meet with each other. Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; Fortune; Graves; World; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones RONDEAU OF FARE-WELL, by JEAN FROISSART Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bodye goes; I leave wyth thee my heart Last Line: Ladye most deare, fare-well till I ryde home. Alternate Author Name(s): Froissart, Jehan Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting RONDEL, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by, the tears are in my eyes Last Line: Good-by, the last of my good-bys. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Farewell ROSAMUND DE CLIFFORD TO KING HENRY III, AFTER SHE HAD TAKEN THE VEIL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry, 'its past! Each painful effort o'er Last Line: That even death was weak to end our love. Subject(s): Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Farewell; Henry Iii, King Of England (1207-1272); Love; Nuns; Redemption; Regret; Salvation; Parting ROSEMARY, by PERCY LOVEDAY Poem Text First Line: Oh, night sublime, too brief, when we two stood Last Line: We still remember. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Parting SAD VENTURES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I stood and watched my ships go out Last Line: A crown linked to a cross Subject(s): "cross, The;crosses;crowns;faith;farewell;ships & Shipping;" Belief;creed;parting SAE FAR AWA', by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sad and heavy should I part Last Line: Than her's, the fair, sae far awa. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SAME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At the same door, the same word Last Line: In the heart, the sleepless cry Subject(s): Farewell; Rites And Ceremonies SAY NOT GOOD-BYE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows if we shall meet again? Last Line: Say not good-bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Fear; Hearts; Love; Pain; Parting; Suffering; Misery SAYING GOOD-BYE AT A PARTING PAVILION, by XU YUEYING Poem Source First Line: Grief and regret Last Line: Headed its own way Subject(s): Farewell SAYING GOOD-BYE TO A SINGING GIRL WHO HAS DECIDED TO BECOME A NUN, by MO SHIH-LUNG Poem Source First Line: You have called at the gate of the true vehicle Last Line: Will bloom %in the realm of emptiness Subject(s): Farewell; Nuns SEA AND SHORE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you marked how the sea with foam Last Line: When the tide sets out to sea. Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SEA-VOICES, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! / from this sequestered spot Last Line: Dear mother earth, farewell! Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; World; Parting SECOND EPITAPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: On the gloomy banks of the melas, at tomasson in pamphylia Last Line: Seen my tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Farewell; Graves; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones SEEING OFF MR. MEIGONG ON HIS RETURN TO YUNJIAN, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Last time you saw me off Last Line: Let not the boat go like an arrow Subject(s): Farewell SEEING OFF SHEN JIAZ ON HIS TRAVEL TO GUANGLING, by ZHAO CAIJI Poem Source First Line: The autumn wind whiffs away the wooden orchid boat Last Line: The flowers and moon of yangzhou sadden one Subject(s): Farewell SEEING OFF WANG ZHONGFANG ON HIS RETURN TO XIN'AN, by ZHAO CAIJI Poem Source First Line: Dusk's snow falls over the road to yangzi south Last Line: Yet still I turn towards last year's branches Subject(s): Farewell SEEING OFF ZHANG YOUYU ON HIS RETURN TO WUMEN, by ZHAO CAIJI Poem Source First Line: Before the flowers tears soak my robe and skirt Last Line: Whomever you meet, entrust him with a letter to lake tai Subject(s): Farewell SEEING SOMEONE OFF, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: We disnmount; I give you wine Last Line: Go then - I'll ask no more - %there's no end to white clouds there Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Farewell SEEING SOMEONE OFF, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Dismounting, I offer you wine Last Line: White clouds drift on and on Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Farewell SEENING HUANG YUNAJIE OFF AGAIN, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: After our farewell you disappeared among mountains and clouds Last Line: As your elegant beauty returned home under the moon Subject(s): Farewell SENDING A FRIEND ON HIS WAY, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green hills stretch past the north ramparts Last Line: We wave, going off from here, %and our horses whinny on parting Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell SENDING HUANG OFF TO THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: The wind drives the lone sail away Last Line: I shall long remember our nighttime excursions Subject(s): Farewell SENDING MR. YUAN ON HIS WAY ON A MISSION TO AN-XI, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: By the walls of wie city the rain at dawn Last Line: Once you go west out yang pass %there will be no old friends Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell SENDING OFF A FRIEND AMIDST THE CRIES OF GIBBONS, by CHIAO-JAN Poem Source First Line: You go ten thousand miles Last Line: It will be all the more wounding to hear Subject(s): Farewell; Zen Buddhism SENDING OFF GU QIJI TO THE NORTH, by CHAI JINGYI Poem Source First Line: A leaf of peach-blossom water Last Line: Clouds whiten old hangzhou Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry And Poets SENDING SOMEONE OFF, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: A hint of snow fills the fragrant islet Last Line: Resisting the urge to climb the highest tower Subject(s): Farewell SENT TO ZI'AN, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: Drunk at parting: a thousand goblets of wine won't wash away my sorrow Last Line: But I'm not willing to stay languidly drunk in my jade tower Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Grief SEPARATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sworded man whose trade is blood Last Line: Not half enough to part from thee! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SEPARATION ON THE RIVER KIANG, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ko-jin goes west from ko-kaku-ro Last Line: The long kiang, reaching heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Farewell; Rivers; Parting SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Directed by the eyes of others Last Line: Theirs, no voyage is, no tunnel, door, nor way Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting SHE BEGINING TO STUDY PHISICK ... FALLS INTO A DEGRESSION ON ANATOMY, by JANE BARKER Poem Text First Line: Fare well fare well, kind poetry my friend Last Line: That cou'd prolong the motion of his heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Parting SHELLS, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the heat, in the high grass Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SHEW ME NO MORE THE MARIGOLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "whether living thus, alive or dead, I be" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SHORT FAREWELLS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A toast is the right length, I think Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Toasts; Farewell; Grief; Aging; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SIGN OF FEVER, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toys that parting lovers give Subject(s): Love; Farewell; Parting SINCE WE PARTED, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since we parted yester eve Last Line: Than I loved thee, love, before. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Love - Loss Of; Parting SINCE YOU WENT AWAY: 1, by MA SHOU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Since you went away Last Line: The green robe is spattered with teardrops Subject(s): Farewell SINCE YOU WENT AWAY: 2, by MA SHOU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Since you went away Last Line: But how much can it dispel? Subject(s): Farewell SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 116, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by in fear, good-by in sorrow Last Line: "never to part again." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SIR EGLAMOUR'S FAREWELL, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you bid me go, and set aside Last Line: Enough! I know my north. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SIR ELIDUC; A LAY OF MARIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Touch ye the harp with tender hand Last Line: By man was never known! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marie De France (12th Century); Marriage; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SISTER MADELEINE, by CLARE EVEREST Poem Text First Line: The blessed hush of eventide Last Line: "into the ""silent land." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SO LONG, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All coiled down, an' it's time for us to go Last Line: An' so long, sailorman . . . Good luck to you. Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Parting SO LONG!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To conclude, I announce what comes after me Last Line: I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SOCOBIE'S PASSING, by THEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Socobie, aged and bent with pain Last Line: "what voice cries ""farewell"" to our mother saint john?" Alternate Author Name(s): Roberts, T. G. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting SOME OTHER DAY - BYE AND BYE, by EFFIE E. WHEELOCK Poem Text First Line: Oh, the wonderful things we intend to do Last Line: Some other day -- bye and bye! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad little heart, overburdened with dream Last Line: The heart-break! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Parting; Ocean; Songs SONG, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maid of athens, ere we part Last Line: Can I cease to love thee? No! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell SONG, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ere the thistle was twined with the rose Last Line: For the thistle—her thistle!—shall ever be green! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Farewell; Ramsay, James. 1st Marquis Of Dalhousie; Parting; Ramsay, James Andrew Broun (1812-186) SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world's asleep Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (3), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early one morning in may I set out Last Line: I'm bound away for ever, %away somewhere, away for ever Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farewell SONG (9), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! - and never think of me Last Line: Then -- and then only -- think of me! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONG OF EMIGRATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was heard a song on the chiming sea Last Line: -- home, home and friends, farewell!' Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONG OF MING-GAO: SENDING OFF MR. CHEN, A GENTLEMAN IN RETIREMENT, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It seems there is someone, he longs for ming-gao Last Line: I will join you forever as a friend Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Homecoming SONG OF PARTING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say farewell, and let me go Last Line: Say farewell, and let me go. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Parting SONG OF THE GOING AWAY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, upon the green hill-side Last Line: "when he crieth, ""awake!""'" Subject(s): Farewell; Life; Peace; Singing & Singers; Parting; Songs SONG ON LEAVING THE COUNTRY EARLY IN SPRING, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: While joy re-animates the fields Last Line: O'er the unopened bud an unrefreshing shower. Subject(s): Country Life; Farewell; Parting SONG ON VISITING HEAVEN'S CRONE MOUNTAIN IN A DREAM: ON PARTING, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seafarers speak of that isle of ying Last Line: It makes me incapable %of relaxing heart or face Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell SONG, FR. ARTAXERXES (OPERA), by THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE Poem Text First Line: Water, parted from the sea Last Line: Till it reach its native home. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips SONG, FR. LEONI, A ROMANCE OF ITALY, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full, broad, and bright, is the silver light Last Line: O'er the deep, silent, surge of sorrow. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONG: 1, by THOMAS DUFFETT Poem Text First Line: Since coelia's my foe Last Line: No answer again. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Unrequited; Parting SONG: 102, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, all my welfare Last Line: Of my great grief the great excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Love; Pain; Seduction; Truth; Belief; Creed; Parting; Suffering; Misery SONG: 114, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would ye more of me, your slave, require Last Line: That without cause causeless thus suffer'th smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous cradle of my sorrow Last Line: In a chilly distant tomb. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, surly pilot, shortly Last Line: Both thou broughtest, death and flame! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Love; Patience; Dead, The; Parting SONGS IN ABSENCE: 1, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell! Her vans the vesssel tries Last Line: Farewell, a last, indeed, a last farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONGS OF MY CARES: 3, by RUAN JI Poem Source First Line: A path will form beneath fair trees Last Line: And the year too has reached its end Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Farewell SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 20, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind and stars, I am with you now Last Line: Than the very dark grows dear. Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Farewell SONNET, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the bitter tears that fell Last Line: The dayspring of delight! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Farewell SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET: 108, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair tajo! Thou whose calmly-flowing tide Last Line: And blend my tears with other waves than thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Streams; Farewell SONNET: 133, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waves of mondego! Brilliant and serene Last Line: And still, bright waters! In your current lave. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Farewell SONNET: 14, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart I gave thee, not to do it pain Last Line: Ploweth in water and soweth in the sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 14 Subject(s): Desire; Farewell; Hearts; Parting SORROW OF PARTING, by MARUYAMA KAORU Poem Source First Line: In the ear of an anchor, a gull croaks Last Line: Lost in the wind Subject(s): Farewell SOU' SPAIN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you coming, johnnie bowline, have you Last Line: You'll soon forget your sailorman that's sailed sou' spain! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 100, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farewell, house of four waters Last Line: For me are over Subject(s): Farewell SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 104, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lo, there is nothing to see Last Line: Spread its sails and went away Subject(s): Absence; Farewell SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 155, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now the shepherds are going Last Line: Now the valley remains %silent and cold Subject(s): Farewell; Silence SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 85, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good bye, and go with god Last Line: At the spring of oblivion Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 92, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farewell. I go without seeing you Last Line: My arms without having held you Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPLITTING, by GEORGE PARKS HITCHCOCK Poem Source First Line: I wanted to leave Last Line: Not enough curlews %time to go Subject(s): Farewell STANZAS; ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND ON HER MARRIAGE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: No voice but that of gladness Last Line: Shall absence it destroy? Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Life; Love; Memory; Parting STATIC, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Well, old flame, the fire's out Last Line: The blankets crackle with bright blue sparks Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Night STORY, by ROBERTO SABALLOS Poem Source First Line: This is the story of maria teresa Last Line: This is the story of maria teresa %this is the story of my people Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons; Farewell; Human Rights STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L., by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So you're gone Last Line: I need you back Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SUMMER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, now I'm going away. The meek Last Line: One rose that is born again so many times Subject(s): Death; Farewell SUMMER'S ADIEU, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The lanes are green; the skies, bedight Last Line: Bend and nod and bid farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Summer; Parting SUNRED, by NOEL CONNEELY Poem Source First Line: I have seen you at sunset Last Line: Your footprints lost %in the coming waves Subject(s): Farewell; Love TAKING LEAVE OF A FRIEND, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue mountains to the north of the walls Last Line: As we are departing. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TAKING LEAVE OF A FRIEND, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the city wall Last Line: You wave, moving off %your horse %whinnies %twice Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Farewell TAKING LEAVE OF THE SWALLOWS, by LI YUYING Poem Source First Line: New nests dribble mud while the old nests lie aslant Last Line: The painted hall is as before, but the master is gone Subject(s): Farewell TANKA, by MUIN OTOKICHI OZAKI Poem Source First Line: I bid farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers TERENCE'S FAREWELL, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, my kathleen, you're going to leave me Last Line: Ev'ry inch of the way that you go! Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE ADIEU, by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moravians their minstrelsy bring Last Line: Only read thro' the blot of a tear! Subject(s): Farewell; Moravia And Moravians; Parting THE ADIEU TO HAIZETTES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Two glutted barrows we despatch, filled with our things. We cannot Last Line: The weather-cock upon the thatch utters a cry so desolate! Subject(s): Farewell; Home; Parting THE ADIEU, TO A FRIEND LEAVING SUFFOLK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! And oh! If aught of grief Last Line: And we may meet more dear than ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): MEDEA'S PARTING WORDS, by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS Poem Text First Line: Then to keep covenant in greece is well! Last Line: There as your guest, though you should not invite! Alternate Author Name(s): Apollonius Of Rhodes Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE AUTHOR'S PARTING ADDRESS TO THE MUSE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our task is ended now, and we may part Last Line: And freedom, peace, and love, with thee forever reign! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting THE AVENUE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that we've come to the end Subject(s): Farewell; Morning; Parting THE BLESSED SLEEP, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Farewell, dear heart, then sleep! Last Line: Into our saviour's face. Subject(s): Farewell; Sleep; Parting THE BLOOM HATH FLED THY CHEEK, MARY, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Transcience; Aging; Farewell THE BOND OF LOVE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Why renew the fond sweethearting? Is love worth the pain of it? Last Line: Little lass, the strands are parting; you must bear the strain of it. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Parting THE BONNIE LASS OF RUILY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the village of ruily there lived a bonnie lass Last Line: "then harry cried, ""merciful heaven, my heather belle is dead!" Subject(s): Courtship; Farewell; Household Employees; Love; Parting; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I weep? - to leave the vine Last Line: Now the light gathers o'er youth and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Farewell; Parting THE BROOK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the mountain to the sea Last Line: And I have many a mile to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Brooks; Farewell; Streams; Creeks; Parting THE CENTAUR'S FAREWELL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are passed from the feast that my hands might have spread, from the Last Line: My sleep shall bring dreams that are barren, and midnight wail out on my rest! Subject(s): Chiron (centaur); Farewell; Parting THE CITY, 1850, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the city, and the city's smoke Last Line: Good-bye! I'm going by the evening train! Subject(s): Farewell; New York City - 19th Century; Streets; Parting; Avenues THE CLOISTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last light of a july evening drained Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting THE COUNTRY GIRL'S FAREWELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell ye hills and valleys Last Line: What lies to a beau? Subject(s): Country Life;farewell;girls; Parting THE DARK MEMORY, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was our love's gethsemane, and you wept Last Line: Shed for my sake, and how you wept alone. Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude; Tears; Parting; Loneliness THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are parceled out over the post office Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DEATH OF ROLLA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Marie then, smiling, looked into the glass Last Line: And for a moment two had tasted bliss. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Happiness; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Parting; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations THE DEFEATED, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat at the desk for a while fooling with my hair Last Line: But then everything else stops because I don't know what happens after that Subject(s): Farewell THE DEPARTED, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: While yet their fagots scarce had burned Last Line: Blessing their memories with tears. Subject(s): Farewell; Memory; Parting THE DEPARTED, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down from the open spaces where the banshee / wails to the moon Last Line: Says the wind at the window pane. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE DEPARTURE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By all thy glories willingly I go Last Line: Cause you are fair, he loves himself, not you. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE DEPARTURE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this roadstead I have ridden Last Line: Sighed plaintively. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE DESCRIPTION OF COOKHAM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell (sweet cooke-ham) where I first obtain'd Last Line: Tying my heart to her by those rich chaines. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Farewell; Food & Eating; Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Parting THE DYING IMPROVISATORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of my land Last Line: Sweet friends! Bright land! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Italy; Dead, The; Parting; Italians THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting THE EMBARKATION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: The band of pilgrim exiles in tearful silence stood Last Line: "for the feeble and the faithful are the conquerors at last." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Farewell; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn is over the long leaves that love us Last Line: With a kiss and a tear on thy on thy drooping brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Autumn; Farewell THE FAREWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old scotia's bleak domains Last Line: I'll never see thee more! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FAREWELL, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Farewell to europe, and at once farewell Last Line: P. She cannot starve, if there was only clive. Subject(s): England; Farewell; English; Parting THE FAREWELL, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the ice will hold Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sad the parting word we hear Last Line: The last farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FAREWELL, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fond love, under whose childinsh whip Last Line: The hollow echo will reply, 'twas I. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FAREWELL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! / shadows and scenes that have, for many hours Last Line: And hopes, almost misgivings! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FAREWELL, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since fate commands me hence, and I Last Line: Love hath more power than destiny. Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Nature Of; Parting THE FAREWELL OF THE OLD GUARD AT FONTAINEBLEAU, 1814, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately court of fontainebleau Last Line: Falls no more on fontainebleau. Subject(s): Faces; Farewell; Silence; Tears; Parting THE FAREWELL. TO THE BRETHREN OF ST. JAMES'S LODGE, TARBOLTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! A heart-warm fond adieu Last Line: To him, the bard that's far awa. Subject(s): Farewell; Brotherhood; Friendship; Parting THE FAREWELL; TO A FRENCH AIR, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well, gabrielle! Last Line: Fair miracle of france! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FIG-TREES OF GHERARDESCA, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye brave old fig-trees! Worthy pair Last Line: The girlish glee! Old friends, farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Fig Trees; Parting THE FIRST KISS AT PARTING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humid seal of soft affections Last Line: So thrilling and sincere as thine! Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Parting THE FLEETING VISITANT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: These parting words we have to say Last Line: Seems on its farewell tour Subject(s): Farewell;guests;travel; Parting;visiting;journeys;trips THE GOING MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, vain world, he's going home Last Line: Throughout the land! Subject(s): Abandonment; Babies; Farewell; Longing; Mothers; Desertion; Infants; Parting THE HEART'S WINTER, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! We part as ne'er before Last Line: Its joyous, happy hours! Subject(s): Cold; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Parting; Loneliness THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 4. THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roofs of wool row are charcoal Last Line: I don't listen, I don't listen. Subject(s): Bells; Children; Dusk; Farewell; Relationships; Childhood; Parting THE HUGUENOT'S FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon the threshold stone Last Line: I go up to the mountains with my god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE IMPROVISATRICE: SAPPHO'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my lute! - and would that I Last Line: Vibrate the chord whereon it sleeps! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Lutes; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Parting THE LAMENT OF LAMB'S CONDUIT, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Farewell, little groundlings! Last Line: That grow on red hill. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Orphans; Childhood; Parting; Foundlings THE LAST FAREWELL, by EDWARD BLISS EMERSON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, ye lofty spires Last Line: Far away, far away. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE LAST GOODBYE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we know it is the last goodbye? Last Line: Would any choose to part thus unaware? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs THE LAST POST OF SAMADEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-bye, old post! It is decreed Last Line: Good-bye, old post, good-bye! Subject(s): Bugles; Farewell; Past; Parting THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said -- then, dearest, since 'tis so Last Line: Ride, ride together, forever ride? Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Farewell; Exotic Love; Parting THE LAST TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the last time we shall sit and see Last Line: Because of the last time that's yet to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF MY FAREWELL TO YOU, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look what a thousand blue thousand white Last Line: Blowing down the road Subject(s): Farewell THE LORD OF THE ISLE, by STEFAN GEORGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fishermen will relate that in the south Last Line: Departed with a muffled cry of pain. Subject(s): Farewell; Fish & Fishing; Pain; Parting; Anglers; Suffering; Misery THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 60. FAREWELL TO JULIET (9), by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you juliet, still, with your straw hat Last Line: It was the reddest rose in all the world. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 62. FAREWELL TO JULIET (14), by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lame, impotent conclusion to youth's dreams Last Line: Speedy oblivion, rest for memory. Variant Title(s): Vanitas Vanitatis Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE MOURNER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! There are real mourners, - I have seen Last Line: While visions please her, and while woes destroy. Subject(s): Farewell; Mourning; Parting; Bereavement THE MOURNFUL LUTE OR THE PRECEPTOR'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father and mother, authors of my birth Last Line: Is all I ask, let weal or woe abound. Subject(s): Farewell; Religion; Parting; Theology THE NEW ENGLAND EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, by DANIEL PIERCE THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: New england, farewell! With thy evergreen mountains Last Line: As I bid thee a long and a lasting adieu. Subject(s): Farewell; Immigrants; New England; Parting; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE NIGHT BEFORE LEAVING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sit at the kitchen table Subject(s): Farewell; Family Life THE OLD YEAR, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Good night, old year, good night! Last Line: And wait god's will with patience till the end. Subject(s): Farewell; Future; Holidays; New Year; Past; Parting THE ONWARD TRAIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just as of old, - with fearless foot Last Line: Merge and be ever one again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Roads; Wandering & Wanderers; Parting; Paths; Trails THE PARTING, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As men in green-land left behind the sunne Last Line: And let mee and my sunne beget a man. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Is it thus we part Last Line: Nor you nor I can bear! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING, by CLARA LUCINA WARNER Poem Text First Line: His mind was crowded with wavering thoughts Last Line: But her heart holds for him love entwined! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING DAY, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some busy hands have brought to light Last Line: Have aged my heart since that good-by. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING GUEST, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sigh no more for the days that are gone Last Line: But none is permitted to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting THE PARTING HOUR, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Not yet, dear love, not yet: the sun is high Last Line: "ah! Bitter word ""farewell." Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING HOUR, by EDWARD POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: There's something in 'the parting hour' Last Line: Than those he leaves behind. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING LOVERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "she says, 'the cock crows, - hark'" Last Line: But give the cock a blow / who did not begin our woe! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING OF SIGURD AND GERDA, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: She stood beneath the moonlight pale Last Line: Won by thine earnest love. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Parting; Male-female Relations THE PARTING OF WAYS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies from black to pearly grey Last Line: Sigh to us from the hearts of men. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Victory; Parting THE PARTING OF WILLIAM AND MARY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We part, perhaps to meet no more Last Line: The ship plowed foaming to the main. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING SHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, in thy glory, o'er the ancient sea Last Line: Fare thee well, bark! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Ships & Shipping; Parting THE PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A youth went forth to exile, from a home Last Line: "murmuring, ""return, my son!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Farewell; Greece; Parting; Greeks THE PARTING VERSE, OR CHARGE TO SUPPOSED WIFE .. TRAVELLED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go hence, and with this parting kisse Last Line: Know vertue taught thee, not thy selfe. Subject(s): Farewell; Fidelity; Parting; Faithfulness; Constancy THE PARTING VERSE, THE FEAST THERE ENDED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loth to depart, but yet at last, each one Last Line: Herrick shall make the meddow-verse for you. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING WORD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must leave thee, lady sweet Last Line: Sealed how often, love, as now. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTING-GATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that old beech-walk, now bestrewn with mast Last Line: Through all that sweet, forsaken, forest-mile! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE PARTY, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Parties; Friendships; Relationships; Farewell; Parting THE POET'S DEATH-BED, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of splendour! / linked to corruption! Last Line: Fare thee well! Fare thee well! Subject(s): Aging; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Weariness; Parting; Fatigue THE PROFLIGATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! I must go Last Line: And husks for swine. Subject(s): Faith; Farewell; Life; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Sin; Belief; Creed; Parting THE REALISTS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The demon lover quit and poised for flight Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE RETREAT, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pursue no more (my thoughts!) that false unkind Last Line: As 'tis my firm resolve and last farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE ROBIN'S FAREWELL, by CLARA DOTY BATES Poem Full Text First Line: Good-bye, old tree, good-bye Subject(s): Robins; Farewell; Parting THE ROUGH RIDER TO HIS GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am lying in my tent, sweet marie" Last Line: Ta-ra-ra-ra boom de-ay! Hully gee! Subject(s): Farewell;love; Parting THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palinode entreats his friend Last Line: It is in vain. Farewell. I must away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven Last Line: Wish I was there with you Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 9, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: With staunch farewell, as friend took leave of friend Last Line: Launch'd forth, and soon the sounding furrows cleft. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting THE SLIPRAILS AND THE SPUR, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The colors of the setting sun Last Line: Steal home and cry herself to sleep. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Spurs; Parting THE SLUGGER'S FAREWELL TO HIS WAR CLUB, by C. P. MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: Farewell, good old pal of the national pastime Last Line: And now we must travel our separate ways. Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Farewell; Games; Sports; Travel; Parting; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Journeys; Trips THE SMELL OF GASOLINE IN MY NOSE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon us and upon all lovers in autumn Subject(s): Farewell; War; Love – Loss Of THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA'S DEPARTURE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the shore of gitche gumee Last Line: To the land of the hereafter! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 5, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastward rocks of almeria's bay Last Line: On aught but blackness overhung by stars.] Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Farewell; Inquisition; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain; War; Parting; Male-female Relations THE SUCCESSOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I closed the door behind me Last Line: Where she waited—me! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever he needs, he has or doesn't Subject(s): Camping; Summer; Farewell; Camps; Summer Camps; Parting THE SYCAMINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frail yellow leaves they are falling Last Line: Ye know not where ye tread! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting THE TAXI, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I go away from you Last Line: Meterless verse. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Taxis; Parting THE TERRACE, by XAVIER DE MAGALLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man, come out on your terrace Last Line: With these familiar things. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell awhile, my bonnie darling! Last Line: "waits for the man who goes beyond!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Kisses; Love; Dead, The; Parting THE THREE CHILDREN, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Else had blown away on the east wind. Richard went away Last Line: Goodbye else, richard, hilary, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Wind; Childhood; Parting THE TIFF, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Ill-fated bard!' she cried, 'whose lengthening grief' Last Line: "anna matilda never can be thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Passion; Suicide; Tragedy; Parting THE TIMEPIECE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has it uttered its warning cry Last Line: Still let them rest in their lowly bed! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Time; Dead, The; Parting THE TWO TRAVELLERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas evening, and before my eyes Last Line: Had passed, and he was lost to sight. Subject(s): Travel; Farewell; Journeys; Trips; Parting THE UNRETURNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drifting, drifting, drifting Last Line: Songs of the broken hearted. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Farewell; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Parting THE VAIN FAREWELL, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last farewell is on my tongue Last Line: My heart doth hang. Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE VOICE OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come, I come! Ye have called me long Last Line: And the flowers are not death's -- fare ye well, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Spring; Parting THE WANDERER, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm talking about what isn't there anymore, Subject(s): Friendship; Family Life; City & Town Life; Farewell; Love; Relatives; Parting THE WANDERER, by V. O. WALLINGFORD Poem Text First Line: I wonder, wayward child of mine Last Line: I'll clasp your hand, and share your joy! Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Parents; Wandering & Wanderers; Childhood; Parting; Parenthood THE WAY DOWN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way down Subject(s): Landscape; Farewell; Parting THE WHISTLE OF THE TRAIN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time is up, the friends are near Last Line: The whistle of the train. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Railroads; Dead, The; Parting; Railways; Trains THE WHOLE WORLD'S SADLY TALKING TO ITSELF - W. B . YEATS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hands full of sand, I say Subject(s): Language; Farewell; Words; Vocabulary; Parting THE WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE; OR, THE EMIGRANT'S ADIEU TO HIS BIRTHPLACE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu to ballyshannon [belashanny]! Where I was bred and born Last Line: And I must quit my native shore, and the winding banks of erne! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Variant Title(s): The Emigrant's Farewell To Ballyshannon Subject(s): Ballyshannon, Ireland; Erne (river), Ireland; Farewell; Parting THEIR SWEET SORROW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They meet to say farewell: their Last Line: Sweet as the dew's lip to the rose's. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Kisses; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness THERE IS GREAT MUSIC, by GRACE TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: There is great music and I cannot play Last Line: "good-night,"" in your lovely way you said." Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THERE WAS A CHILD ONCE, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Fear; Childhood; Parting THIS LITTLE BAG', by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This little bag I hope will prove Last Line: You'll recollect your friend Subject(s): Farewell; Gifts And Giving; Sewing THREE ANECDOTES, by DEBORAH TALL Poem Source First Line: We made love in a field outside gort Last Line: As we choose to stay? Your face turned towards the gate Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Old Age; Patriotism; Travel TIANXIANZI: PARTING FEELINGS, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Misty water, reed catkins, all blend into a stretch of sadness Last Line: A frosty saddle wends the dawn road as the cock crows in the inn Subject(s): Farewell TIPPERARY: 2. AS THE TRANSLATORS WOULD HAVE INTERLINED IT . . ., by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou torquatus, the space to tipperarium Last Line: My heart at that location is present. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIPPERARY: 3. AS THE INTERLINEARS MIGHT TAKE IT FROM XENOPHON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke as follows: (that) it is ten parasangs Last Line: Exist the vitals of me. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Farewell; Tipperary, Ireland; Tourists; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TIRADE FOR THE NEXT-TO-LAST ACT (VERSION A), by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm leaving you, I won't touch you anymore Last Line: So I'm leaving you, good-bye. I'm gone. Good-bye. Subject(s): Discontent; Farewell; Love; Dissatisfaction; Parting TO A DEPARTING FRIEND, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, and may some angel guide Last Line: Where tempest shall toss it never. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO A FRIEND, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We parted on the mountains, as two streams Last Line: O'er rough and smooth to travel side by side. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO A FRIEND AT PARTING, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my friend! - perchance again Last Line: For me behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting TO A GARDEN -- ON LEAVING IT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet garden! Peaceful spot! No more in thee Last Line: My love-led soul will wander back to thee. Subject(s): Farewell; Gardens & Gardening; Parting TO A LADY OF HIGH DEGREE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse Last Line: Made such a churl of me. Variant Title(s): Ballad Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Unrequited; Parting TO A SWEET PEA, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little fairy, with your outstretched / wings Last Line: And know it bloweth from immortal bloom. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Mortality; Dead, The; Parting TO C. DICKENS, ESQ. ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pshaw, away with leaf and berry Last Line: As the best among his works. Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Farewell; Sea Voyages; Parting TO CYNTHIA GONE INTO THE COUNTRY, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' the late parting was our joint desire Last Line: Not once to sigh for what thou left'st behind. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO FRANCIS V. Z--, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm drawn to the north by a golden star Last Line: The bard will rejoice in the far north land. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO GORDON, LEAVING KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of traitorous feet! Last Line: Where the thames and the clyde are flowing! Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Nile (river); War; Parting TO H. W. LONGFELLOW; BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE TO EUROPE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our poet, who has taught the western breeze Last Line: The proudest, fondest love thou leavest still behind! Subject(s): Farewell; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Parting TO HIM, by GERTRUDIS GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA Poem Source First Line: No bonds withhold, - for all that held are Last Line: Holds pardon for thee and sweet charity Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love TO HIS MISTRESS UPON GOING TO TRAVEL, by HENRY LAWES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, do not now delay me Last Line: Which restrained, a heart is broken. Subject(s): Farewell; Travel; Parting; Journeys; Trips TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND MASTER THOMAS SHAPCOTT, LAWYER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've paid thee, what I promis'd; that's not all Last Line: Farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Parting TO LEAP FROM MOUNTAINS, A FIGURE OF THOUGHT, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Of course, he said, but it's contingent on physics and chemistry Last Line: We felt this would not let go of us Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Graves; Thought TO LORD BYRON ON HIS DEPARTURE FOR ITALY AND GREECE, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you resolve, dear byron, once again Last Line: Remember what we all expect, who read you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 32. LEAVE-TAKING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Leave-takings are but sadness wasted, quite Last Line: Be true to self, and love thy fellow men. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO MY HUSBAND, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "when from the world, I shall be tane" Last Line: For I'me a parting now from you Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Diamonds;farewell;marriage; Parting;weddings;husbands;wives TO MY LADY E.C. AT HER GOING OUT OF ENGLAND, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must confess, when I did part from you Last Line: Your servant to his best ability. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TO MY OLDER SISTER ON HER DEPARTURE TO YUE, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: You came last year from changxi Last Line: And spring's wind shall fill the river's trees Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters TO PROVE THAT WE EXISTED BEFORE WE WERE BORN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We'll tell you how your mom worked at the hospital Last Line: (since we're both eldest children) -- kissed as if %we didn't need you, one last time Variant Title(s): To Prove That We Existed Before You Were Bor Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Mothers TO SECRETARY LU CH'IEN OF JEN CITY, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sea bird knows the coming of storm Last Line: Tears flow as he bids farewell to herons and ducks Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Farewell TO SPECIAL CONSULTANT QI ON HIS RETURN TO DONGPING, by LIU YAN'GE Poem Source First Line: My old friend parts from me, 'goes out of yang pass' Last Line: The first night's lovelorn tears are flicked away Subject(s): Farewell TO THE ARCHDEACON, by GEORGE FAREWELL Poem Text First Line: Under the sun is nothing new? Last Line: And now farewell, my heavenly friend. Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Parting TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair image of our sainted boy Last Line: Farewell!—dear boy, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Boys; Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Relatives; Parting; Paradise TO THE TRAVELER, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: A flower slid down my shoulder %and fell in the water Last Line: Its golden sugar cube %that melted in the sun Subject(s): Farewell; Travel TO THE TUNE OF MEETING HAPPINESS, by LI YU+(1) Poem Source First Line: Silent and alone, I ascend the west tower. Last Line: Another strange flavor in the heart Subject(s): Farewell; Solitude TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 8. DEPARTURE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not like your great and gracious ways! Last Line: Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Dead, The; Parting TO THYRZA (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without a stone to mark the spot Last Line: It fain would form my hope in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love; Farewell TO TWO SISTERS; A WANDERER'S FAREWELL, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To know, to esteem, to love, - and then to part Last Line: And shine in the eye, of all the world beside. Subject(s): Farewell; Sisters; Parting TO YOU, by VIOLET DARLINGTON WAY Poem Text First Line: If you should go away, however far Last Line: Than that you stay -- and send away your heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting TOMORROW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our loved ones departed still live with us yet Last Line: As morning breaks forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints; Separation; Isolation; Parting TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INSCRIBED ON A MUMMY CASE, BRITISH MUSEUM, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Artemidorus, farewell Last Line: "remains but this—""farewell." Subject(s): Coffins; Farewell; Goddesses & Gods; Mummies; Museums; Mythology; Travel; Parting; Art Gallerys; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. PARTED LIPS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Parted lips, between which love dwells Last Line: Yet here the gate of all the world to me. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting TRIESTE - CIAO TO ITALY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe we should've fallen in love Last Line: This sad deservesa nothing / but a stony memory Subject(s): Italy; Disappointment; Grief; Farewell; Love – Complaints; Trieste TWAS A LONG PARTING, BUT THE TIME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The unobtrusive guest Subject(s): Farewell TWO COUNTRIES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I have two countries: cuba and the night Last Line: Like a cloud that dims the heavens Subject(s): Cuba; Farewell; Patriotism; Soldiers TWO HUNDRED DAYS, by LORINC SZABO Poem Source First Line: I couldn't keep a hold on you Last Line: The beginning of two separate roads %into nothing Subject(s): Farewell; Love TWO VERSES ON SEEING YOU OFF: 1, by DONG SHAOYU Poem Source First Line: Amidst the last flurry of poplar blossoms we said goodbye Last Line: Parting boats are borne day by day Subject(s): Farewell UNCE UPON A TIME IN SPAIN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I have only a few postcards Last Line: But thanks to our parting, %that last embrace, %I have good memories Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Farewell; Gypsies; Memory; Travel UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, by WALTER HOEFLER Poem Source First Line: I say goodbye to the city %I must distance myself from it Last Line: Look, there's a spider web.' %'leave it there. At least it %might have some fond memories.' Subject(s): Farewell UNDER THE COLD, PINE ARBOR MOON, by HONGJANG Poem Source Last Line: My love departs %not to return Subject(s): Farewell; Love - Loss Of UNTITLED, by ORLANDO EMANUELS Poem Source First Line: When before long Last Line: When before long you bid us farewell Subject(s): Farewell UPON A PASSING BELL, by THOMAS WASHBOURNE Poem Text First Line: Hark, how the passing bell Last Line: This bell bids thee beware! Subject(s): Bells; Farewell; Parting UPON MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND HIS GOING INTO ENGLAND, 1661, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most high who rulest all Last Line: All praises unto thee. Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sea Voyages; Sickness; Childhood; Parting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness UPON PARTING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goe hence away, and in thy parting know Last Line: But truth knitt fast; and so farewell for euer. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting UPON SOME ALTERATION IN MY MISTRESS, AFTER MY DEPARTURE INTO FRANCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle love, do not forsake the guide Last Line: In the deep flood she drown'd her beamy face. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting UPON THE NOBLE LADY ASTONS DEPARTURE FOR SPAINE, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I many a time have greatly marveil'd, why Last Line: To send health to her, and her home to me. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting VALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, sweet friend, goodbye Last Line: Goodbye, sweet love, goodbye. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Farewell; Parting VALE (TO IRWIN SWERDLOW), by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambridge, an outdoor library stack full of books Last Line: All we are sure of is goodbye, goodbye Subject(s): Farewell VALEDICTORY SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Serving no haughty muse, my hands have here Last Line: Grant me thy love, I crave no other fee! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting VALERIAN, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: There's a plant, valerian Last Line: Left to mere valerian? Subject(s): Farewell; London; Tyranny & Tyrants; Parting; Dictators VIOLET: 10. HESTERNA ROSA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's fancy flutters to a man Last Line: And some sweet hours have ended with the roses? Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Parting VIOLIN SONGS: WINTER SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were parted then at last? Last Line: Why will it not go by! Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Winter; Parting VISITATION RITES, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle son is performing tricks for me on his bicycle Last Line: Just in a flash in the sun he's suddenly perfected, and I'm gone. Subject(s): Bicycles; Divorce; Farewell; Sons; Youth; Cycling; Parting VOYAGER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is among us in the gloom Last Line: The clock's ticktock. None of us talks Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Farewell; Travel WAIFS: L'ENVOI, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell ye songs, long waifs without a home Last Line: Safe 'twixt the covers of this little book. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky Last Line: "she let me kiss each box Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents; Parting; Parenthood WAITING FOR UPS, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I live inside the window. Now I think the sky Last Line: Nearly as strange as my insistence %she let me kiss each box good-bye Subject(s): Farewell; Letters; Love; Parents WALKING AWAY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day Last Line: And love is proved in the letting go Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Growth; Parting WALKING AWAY, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day Last Line: And love is proved in the letting go Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Farewell; Friendship; Growth WANG STREAM COLLECTION': WILLOW WAVES, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Lacy trees, touching in separate rows Last Line: That suffer from parting in the spring breeze Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Willow Trees WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard their young hearts crying Last Line: Return, no more return Subject(s): Boats; Farewell; Parting WAY IT MUST BE, by ENRIQUE MOLINA Poem Source First Line: Here is my soul, with its strange %dissatisfaction, like the teeth of the wold Last Line: Amid this upside down land that pricks up in the cold air Subject(s): Farewell; Soul; Travel WAYS OF SAYING GOODBYE 6, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The river rushes on. As it has for a long time. Herons, or wading birds that Last Line: Just like you long ago Subject(s): Farewell WE COVER THEE, SWEET FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If thou would'st take it — now Subject(s): Farewell WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE PARTED IN SILENCE, by JULIA CRAWFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We parted in silence, we parted by night' Last Line: Shall hang o'er its waters forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Macartney, Louise; Crawford, Louisa Matilda Jane Subject(s): Farewell; Parting WEE WINDIES LOOKIN' WEST, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Tho' her house the day's a tumblin' Last Line: An' a sight av years between! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, weep for him, the man of god Last Line: Weep, children of israel, weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise; Judaism; Bereavement WEEPING AT PARTING; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, gentle oriana, go Last Line: Whether we e'er shall meet again below? Subject(s): Farewell; Parting WELLS II, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sinhala word I lost Subject(s): Language; Childhood Memories; Farewell; Loss; Water; Words; Vocabulary; Parting WHAT I WILL TAKE FROM MY MOTHER, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: A blue glass jar of mismatched buttons Last Line: Travel up the numinous stepladder stairs Subject(s): Farewell; Travel WHAT WAS TO HAPPEN ALREADY OCCURRED, by JERRY HARP Poem Source First Line: On the sidewalk, petals from bradford pear trees Last Line: The made bed a remnant of her touch Subject(s): Farewell WHEN I AM DEAD, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: When I am dead Last Line: Of a viking! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Vikings; Dead, The; Parting WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHEN WE SAY GOODBYE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not because we are going Last Line: As we enter the intolerable sunlight that never grows old or kind Subject(s): Farewell; Sun; Parting WHEN WE TWO PARTED, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Farewell WHEN YOU ASKED FOR IT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, / the day the seal came up the beach and mother fed him Subject(s): Farewell; Loss; Parting WHEN YOU ASKED FOR IT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, %the day the seal came up the beach and mother fed him Last Line: Dont worry about it dont think I mean everything I say it will %be all right Subject(s): Farewell; Loss WHERE IS ARCADY?, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text Last Line: "will you go now, pretty maid?" Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Parting WHERE'ER YOU ARE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: When the pale stars glimmer o'er the battlefield Last Line: And bring you safely home. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Navy - United States; War; Parting; American Navy WHISPERING FROM THE TREES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Did you ever hear the voices Last Line: "in the breeze, ""good night! Good night!" Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness WHISTLE BLEW AT THE USUAL TIME, by LUCY LLEWELLYN BYARD Poem Source First Line: Just as the 5 o'clock train clicked down the tracks Last Line: And practiced playing those notes Subject(s): Farewell WHITE LADY'S FAREWELL, FR. THE MONASTERY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well, thou holly green Last Line: Wither bush, and perish well, %fall'n is lofty avenel! Subject(s): Farewell WHO LOVE AND PART, by HAMLEN HUNT Poem Text First Line: Who love and part, know parting for a knife Last Line: Atlantis' doom repeated in the heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Time; Parting WHO'S PLAYING THE FLUTE?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On the way to the well who's playing the flute Last Line: Or sell the calf too, for I'm not coming back! Subject(s): Farewell; Flutes WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young men drift away from home; they Last Line: The-hole! Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips WILD GEESE SANG, by KUMHONG Poem Source First Line: Wild geese sang across a thin jade sky Last Line: Its cold glimmers faded within me Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Geese; Love - Loss Of; Wings WILLOW, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter lyricism, crepe rumor Last Line: The dogs will dig up, howling, a goodbye! Subject(s): Death; Farewell WILLOW BRANCH LYRIC, by XIANG LANZHEN Poem Source First Line: Green trees, shady and cool, make the tavern flag fresh Last Line: All the willow branches broken by the springtime wind - and still he does not know Subject(s): Farewell; Willow Trees WITH A CHILD ALL DAY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little raffamuffin, brat, a craving for sen-sen Subject(s): Children; Farewell; Childhood; Parting WONG OF THE WHITE SNOW; SENDING OFF ASSISTANT WU ON RTEURN TO CAPITAL, by TS'EN SHEN Poem Source First Line: The north wind rolls up the earth Last Line: Leaving only the marks in the snow %to show where your horse has passed Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Frontier And Pioneer Life WORDS OF PARTING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The words of parting in our english tongue Last Line: Farewell, -- our very souls are in that cry! Subject(s): Farewell; Language; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Parting; Words; Vocabulary WORDS ON WILLOW BRANCHES, by WU XIAO Poem Source First Line: By the house willows burgeon like the painted eyebrows of a beautiful woman Last Line: He just produces a new branch where the old one broke off before Subject(s): Farewell; Willow Trees WOULDN'T YOU?, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I / could go Last Line: I'd go! Subject(s): Imagination; Wind; Farewell; Fancy WRITTEN IN THE PORCH OF BINSTEAD CHURCH, ISLE OF WIGHT, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, sweet binstead! Take a fond farewell Last Line: The soul to god, in reverential praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Churches; Farewell; God; Cathedrals; Parting YOU HAVE GONE, by BLANCHE PALMER Poem Text First Line: When day is done, within a quiet nook Last Line: And only you and I are there. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting |
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