“Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!”
Maid of Athens http://readytogoebooks.com/MOA43.htm, st. 1 (1810).
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George Gordon Byron227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya
“But oh my heart that will not give itself
Break, you bastard, ripped by your loneliness!”
Chairil Anwar (1922–1949) Indonesian poet
"Sia-Sia" ["In Vain"] (February 1943), p. 11
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar (trans. Burton Raffel)
“Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus, who commanded the three legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 23. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Variant: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Source: Macbeth
Christian Scriver (1629–1693) German hymnwriter
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 161.
“I'll give you something to remember ME by… The back of my head!”
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: The Coffin Club
“Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) British writer
Verse.
“Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!”
Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist