Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man t ...

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep, Nature's observatory whence the dell, In flowery slopes, ...

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.