Farewell

Farewell is a salutation conveying a wish of happiness or welfare at parting, especially a permanent departure. Quotes Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 260-61. He turn'd him right and round about Upon the Irish shore,And gae his bridle reins a shake, With Adieu for evermore, My dear, With Adieu for evermore. Robert Burns, It Was a' for our Rightfu' King. Used and altered by Scott in Rokeby and Monastery. Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been—A sound which makes us linger;—yet—farewell! Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 186. "Farewell!"For in that word—that fatal word—howe'erWe promise—hope—believe—there breathes despair. Lord Byron, Corsair, Canto I, Stanza 15. Fare thee well! and if for ever,Still for ever, fare thee well. Lord Byron, Fare Thee Well. "Adieu," she cries, and waved her lily hand. John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan. Friend, ahoy! Farewell! farewell! Grief unto grief, joy unto joy,Greeting and help the echoes tell Faint, but eternal—Friend, ahoy! Helen Hunt Jackson, Verses, Friend, Ahoy! Though I often salute you, you never salute me first; I shall therefore, Pontilianus, salute you with an eternal farewell. Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book V, Epistle 66. Farewell, happy fields,Where joy forever dwells; hail, horrors! John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 249. Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'. Lady Nairne, Gude Nicht, etc. Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell, my Jean,Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony day been:For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more,We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. Allan Ramsay, Farewell to Lochaber. Fare thee well;The elements be kind to thee, and makeThy spirits all of comfort! William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 2, line 39. Sweets to the sweet; farewell! William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 266. Farewell, and stand fast. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act II, scene 2, line 75. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act III, scene 3, line 349. Here's my hand.And mine, with my heart in't: and now farewell,Till half an hour hence. William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act III, scene 1, line 89. Then westward ho! Grace and good dispositionAttend your ladyship! William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 1, line 146. So sweetly she bade me adieu,I thought that she bade me return. William Shenstone, A Pastoral Ballad, Part I. Absence, Stanza 5. See also Parting External links farewell Category:Themes Category:Salutation Category:Greetings