2007-01-16 11:41:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER -- "The Roman elegiac poet Sextus Propertius rendered the earliest form of this saying in Elegies (c. 26 B.C.) as 'Always toward absent lovers love's tide stronger flows.'...The modern wording...appeared as the opening line of an anonymous English poem in 1602, but it was the British songwriter Thomas Haynes Bayly's book 'Isle of Beauty' (1850) that helped make it a popular sentiment in the Victorian drawing rooms of the day." From "Wise Words and Wives' Tales: The Origins, Meanings and Time-Honored Wisdom of Proverbs and Folk Sayings Olde and New" by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner (Avon Books, New York, 1993).
2007-01-16 11:51:35 · answer #1 · answered by g h 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
somebody it fairly is in no way been without the guy who he/she loves and that they have got been spectacular next to that individual in mattress, whilst they got here up with the asserting. LOL BB, Raji the fairway Witch
2016-10-31 07:34:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The longer your away from someone the happier you are when you see them again.
2007-01-17 19:24:56 · answer #3 · answered by kori22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you! I knew what it meant, but sure didn't know the history!
2007-01-16 12:02:27 · answer #4 · answered by 34th B.G. - USAAF 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋