Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONGS IN ABSENCE: 11, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH


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First Line: Am I with you, or you with me?
Last Line: The dwelling of a purer love.
Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation


AM I with you, or you with me?
Or in some blessed place above,
Where neither lands divide nor sea,
Are we united in our love?

Oft while in longing here I lie,
That wasting ever still endures;
My soul out from me seems to fly,
And half-way, somewhere, meet with yours.

Somewhere -- but where I cannot guess --
Beyond, may be, the bound of space,
The liberated spirits press
And meet, bless heaven, and embrace.

It seems not either here nor there,
Somewhere between us up above,
A region of a clearer air,
The dwelling of a purer love.





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