“The wretch who on the scaffold stands
Has some brief time allow’d
For parting grasp of kindly hands,
For farewell to the crowd :”
Madeline
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes

In Hoc Signo Vinces
1960, In Hoc Signo Vinces

“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”
Quoted in Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 381.
Said on February 27, 1943, during his last illness, after having said that he would never be able to play again.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 413.

“Farewell, farewel, Night shades my Body o're,
Stretching my hands, t'embrace thee, thine no more.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks

After the Siege of Drogheda, where Cromwell had forbid his soldiers "to spare any that were in arms in the town" (1649)

“But two are walking apart forever
And wave their hands for a mute farewell.”
"Divided", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).