| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Desolation |
| | | | There is no creature loves me; |
| And if I die no soul shall pity me. |
Shakespeare. | 1 |
| No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot. | 2 |
| | On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; |
| The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; |
| Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, |
| And not a flower adorns the dreary land. |
Bryant. | 3 |
| | I alone am left on earth! |
| To whom nor relative nor blood remains, |
| No! not a kindred drop that runs in human veins. |
Campbell. | 4 |
| | Goneflitted away, |
| Taken the stars from the night and the sun from the day! |
| Gone, and a cloud in my heart. |
Tennyson. | 5 |
| | No one is so accursed by fate, |
| No one so utterly desolate, |
| But some heart, though unknown, |
| Responds unto his own. |
Longfellow. | 6 |
| | What is the worst of woes that wait on age? |
| What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? |
| To view each loved one blotted from lifes page, |
| And be alone on earth, as I am now. |
Byron. | 7 |
| | Desolate! Life is so dreary and desolate. |
| Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, |
| Yet with itself every soul standeth single, |
| Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan; |
| Holding and having its brief exultation; |
| Making its lonesome and low lamentation; |
| Fighting its terrible conflicts alone. |
Alice Cary. | 8 |
| | The fountain of my heart dried up within me, |
| With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, |
| I stood upon the desert earth alone. |
| And in that deep and utter agony, |
| Though then, then even most unfit to die |
| I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. |
Maturin. | 9 |
| | Unhappy he! who from the first of joys, |
| Society, cut off, is left alone |
| Amid this world of death. Day after day, |
| Sad on the jutting eminence he sits, |
| And views the main that ever toils below; |
| Still fondly forming in the farthest verge, |
| Where the round ether mixes with the wave, |
| Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds; |
| At evening, to the setting sun he turns |
| A mournful eye, and down his dying heart |
| Sinks helpless. |
Thomson. | 10 | | |
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