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Solitude makes a dreamer of me—I am sighing for my friends as a lover sighs for his sweetheart!

From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.

"I am sighing, my love, because I remember."

From Wood Magic A Fable by Jefferies, Richard

"I am reading, madam," he answered, "of Helen of Troy, and I am sighing because she is dead."

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896 by Various

They are sending me to the north, at the time when I am sighing for solitude and repose.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Oh, lover mine, soul of my soul, For you I too am sighing.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean