However, it looked very cheerful and kept me from feeling too dreadfully homesick for my own house and familiar surroundings.

He was homesick at times.

Holmes once wrote a poem about being "Homesick in heaven"; but it would be still harder to be homesick on earthto be wandering about among the ghosts of old memories, and trying to recapture the familiar atmosphere of things.

"It was very different from New England," she said, "but she was prepared for that, and hoped she should not get very homesick during the few weeks which would elapse before she went to Washington.

Poor Anne!" "Do you think she is still as homesick as at first?" "Well, not quite, perhaps; but I never can get to talk to her, and I know it is a terrible sacrifice to her to live here at all, and I won't have her forced into a style of thing against her conscience.

Holmes once wrote a poem about being "Homesick in heaven"; but it would be still harder to be homesick on earthto be wandering about among the ghosts of old memories, and trying to recapture the familiar atmosphere of things.

As I ascended, towards evening, and walked over its monotonous swells, I felt almost homesick beneath its saddening influence.

It would keep her from being homesick by giving her something else to think about.