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A parting seems to bring strong emotions and that generally yields good poetry... or at least poetry that elicits strong emotions from the reader also.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn up love-letters. - Carl Sandburg

1. When We Two Parted by Lord Byron
2. An Adieu by Florence Earle Coates
3. it may not always be so;and i say by e.e. cummings
4. At the Author's Going into Italy by Samuel Daniel
5. A Valediction: Of Weeping by John Donne
6. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
7. Beyond by Ernest Dowson
8. Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part by Michael Drayton
9. After a Parting by Alice Meynell
10. The Last Good-by by Louise Chandler Moulton
11. On Parting by Edward Coote Pinkney
12. A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Ralegh
13. Farewell to the Court by Sir Walter Ralegh
14. Good-bye, Little Cabin by Robert W. Service

    leaving a place that was home is like leaving a loved one

15. Sonnet XCVII: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
16. Sonnet XCVIII: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
17. Goodbye! by George John Whyte-Melville
18. Abset from thee I languish still by John Wilmot
19. Farewell, Love by Thomas Wyatt