| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Exile |
| | | What exile from himself can flee. Byron. | 1 |
| | Beloved country! banishd from thy shore, |
| A stranger in this prison-house of clay, |
| The exild spirit weeps and sighs for thee! |
| Heavenward the bright perfections I adore direct. |
Longfellow. | 2 |
| | An exile, ill in heart and frame, |
| A wanderer, weary of the way; |
| A stranger, without loves sweet claim |
| On any heart, go where I may! |
Mrs. Osgood. | 3 |
| | Farewell, my Spain! a long farewell! he cried. |
| Perhaps I may revisit thee no more, |
| But die, as many an exiled heart hath died, |
| Of its own thirst to see again thy shore. |
Byron. | 4 |
| | Even now, as, wandering upon Eries shore, |
| I hear Niagaras distant cataract roar, |
| I sigh for Englandoh! these weary feet |
| Have many a mile to journey, ere we meet. |
Moore. | 5 |
| | There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin; |
| The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill! |
| For his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing, |
| To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. |
Campbell. | 6 |
| | Home, kindred, friends, and countrythese |
| Are ties with which we never part; |
| From clime to clime, oer land and seas, |
| We bear them with us in our heart: |
| But, oh! t is hard to feel resignd, |
| When these must all be left behind! |
J. Montgomery. | 7 |
| Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city. Cicero. | 8 |
| | Oh! when shall I visit the land of my birth, |
| The loveliest land on the face of the earth? |
| When shall I those scenes of affection explore, |
| Our forests, our fountains, |
| Our hamlets, our mountains, |
| With the pride of our mountains, the maid I adore? |
| Oh! when shall I dance on the daisy-white mead, |
| In the shade of an elm, to the sound of the reed? |
Montgomery. | 9 |
| | But me, not destined such delights to share, |
| My prime of life in wandering spent and care; |
| Impelld, with steps unceasing, to pursue |
| Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view |
| That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, |
| Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; |
| My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, |
| And find no spot of all the world my own. |
Goldsmith. | 10 | | |
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