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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WANT OF YOU, by IVAN LEONARD WRIGHT First Line: The want of you is like no other thing Last Line: This want of you. | |||
THE WANT of you is like no other thing; It smites my soul with sudden sickening; It binds my being with a wreath of rue -- This want of you. It flashes on me with the waking sun; It creeps upon me when the day is done; It hammers at my heart the long night through -- This want of you. It sights within me with the misting skies; Oh, all the day within my heart it cries, Old as your absence, yet each moment new -- This want of you. Mad with demand and aching with despair, It leaps within my heart and you are -- where? God has forgotten, or he never knew -- This want of you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET TO HIS FRIEND R.L. IN PRAISE OF MUSIQUE AND POETRIE by RICHARD BARNFIELD THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD by FRANCOIS VILLON ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH TO MISS RIGBY, ON HER ATTENDANCE UPON HER MOTHER AT BUXTON by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD MISTRESS FATE by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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