Matthew 2.
Commentaries
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII, Line 16.
Not lost but gone before (c. 1863).
“Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.”
Source: Winter Garden
“She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.”
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 11 (p. 167)
“Gone before
To that unknown and silent shore.”
Hester (1803), st. 7.
Così nel tempo che virtù fioria
Ne li antiqui segnori e cavallieri,
Con noi stava allegrezza e cortesia,
E poi fuggirno per strani sentieri,
Sì che un gran tempo smarirno la via,
Né del più ritornar ferno pensieri;
Ora è il mal vento e quel verno compito,
E torna il mondo di virtù fiorito.
Bk. 2, Canto 1, st. 2
Orlando Innamorato
“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.”
Source: The Lovely Bones
“Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me
how little now remains”
"A Speech at the Lost-and-Found"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)
Context: Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me
how little now remains, one first person sing., temporarily
declined in human form, just now making such a fuss
about a blue umbrella left yesterday on a bus.
“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
