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  • was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

    Love   Dream   Sleep  
    'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8
  • The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

    Horse   Men   Thinking  
  • Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

    Kissing   Clouds   Light  
    Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257
  • So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

    Hope   Fear   Farewell  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108
  • Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

    Party   Farewell   Secret  
  • Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

  • The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

    Summer   Spring   Rain  
    T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.120, Penguin
  • Farewell, fair cruelty.

    William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.78
  • Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

    Men   Self   Years  
    "The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî". Poem by Richard Francis Burton, 1870.
  • Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

    Dream   Sleep   Past  
    'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8
  • He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

    Love   Rivers   Said  
    Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake”, p.255
  • Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

    Hands   Joy   Bidding  
    "Ode on Melancholy" l. 21 (1820)
  • Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

    William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190
  • I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.

    Beautiful   Girl   Mets  
  • Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

    "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)
  • One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.

    Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101
  • Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong; While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws. Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause, Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well, "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

    Winning   Sight   Hands  
  • I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

  • So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

    William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150
  • A slight sabre-cut will separate my head from my body, like the spring flower which the Master of the garden gathers for His pleasure. We are all flowers planted on this earth, which God plucks in His own good time: some a little sooner, some a little later. Father and son may we meet in Paradise. I, poor little moth, go first. Adieu.

    Father   Spring   Flower  
  • If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.

    Goodbye   Song   Fate  
    Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”
  • Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

    ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”
  • Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.65
  • Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!

    World   Rings   Adieu  
  • Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

    Laughing   Trying   Cows  
  • Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

  • When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

    Life   Goodbye   Farewell  
    Baltimore Evening Sun, June 12, 1922.
  • O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

    Love   Tyrants   May  
  • Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

    Prayer   Heart   Past  
    Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

    Fire   Water   Doubt  
    "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".
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