戀人之間的贈言
think of me sometimes while alps and ocean divide us, but they ever will, unless you wish it.
--george gordon byron
長相思,隔海角;情不斷,聚有期。
--拜倫
and fare thee weel, my only luve,/and fare thee weel a while;/and i will come again, my luve,/tho'it were ten thousand mile!
--robert burns
再見吧,我唯一的戀人,再見吧,小別片刻;我會回來的,我的愛人,哪怕遠隔千山萬水!
--彭斯
absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small; it inflames the great.
--comte de bussy-rabutin
離別對於愛情好比風對於火,它能將小火熄滅,卻將大火燒得更旺。
--比西-拉布丹
rose leaves, when the rose is dead,/are heaped for the beloved's bed;/and so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,/love itself shall slumber on.
--percy bysshe shelley
嬌豔的玫瑰凋謝後,花瓣會撒滿戀人的床;同樣,你離開後,思念將纏綿於眷戀之鄉。
--雪萊
a short absence quickens love, a long absence kills it.
--charles de saint-evremond
短暫的離別會促進愛情,長久的分離卻會將它扼殺。
--聖·埃弗雷芒