| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Sighs |
| | | To sigh, yet feel no pain. Moore. | 1 |
| Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Gray. | 2 |
| | He sighed;the next resource is the full moon, |
| Where all sighs are deposited; and now |
| It happend luckily, the chaste orb shone. |
Byron. | 3 |
| My soul has rest, sweet sigh! alone in thee. Petrarch. | 4 |
| | Sped the soft intercourse from soul to soul |
| And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. |
Pope. | 5 |
| | Sighs |
| Which perfect Joy, perplexed for utterance, |
| Stole from her sister Sorrow. |
Tennyson. | 6 |
| | But sighs subside, and tears (een widows) shrink, |
| Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow |
| So narrow as to shame their wintry brink, |
| Which threatens inundations deep and yellow! |
| Such diffrence do a few months make. Youd think |
| Grief a rich field that never would lie fallow; |
| No more it doth; its ploughs but change their boys, |
| Who furrow some new soil to sow for joys. |
Byron. | 7 |
| | Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeede true friends you are |
| That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, |
| But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst |
| So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care. |
Sir Philip Sidney. | 8 | | |
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