parting (n.)
- abandonment
- abstraction
- adieu
- alienation
- aloha
- annihilation
- bane
- breakup
- closing
- conge
- deactivation
- death
- deathbed
- decampment
- decease
- demise
- demobilization
- departure
- detachment
- diaspora
- disassociation
- disbandment
- disconnectedness
- disconnection
- discontinuity
- disengagement
- disintegration
- disjunction
- dislocation
- dismissal
- disorganization
- dispersal
- dispersion
- dissolution
- disunion
- division
- divorce
- divorcement
- doom
- dying
- egress
- end
- ending
- escape
- evacuation
- exit
- exodus
- expiration
- extinction
- farewell
- final
- flight
- getaway
- going
- good-bye
- grave
- hegira
- incoherence
- isolation
- knell
- last
- leave
- leave-taking
- leaving
- luxation
- partition
- passing
- quietus
- release
- removal
- rest
- retirement
- retreat
- reward
- rift
- rupture
- segmentation
- send-off
- separation
- separatism
- sleep
- split
- splitting
- subdivision
- subtraction
- valediction
- valedictorian
- valedictory
- walkout
- withdrawal
- zoning
Parting day
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues
With a new colour as it gasps away,
The last still loveliest, till—'t is gone, and all is gray.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit!
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,—
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Stood at the parting of the way.
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then this parting was well made.
