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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ABSENCE Matches Found: 1306 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LETTER TO MY LOVE - ALL ALONE, PAST 12, IN THE DUMPS", by THE AMOROUS LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Oh! Weep with me the changing scene Last Line: "or if, my love, that could not be, / I would turn air to mix with thee" Alternate Author Name(s): The Amorous Lady Subject(s): Absence;love; Separation;isolation ...WHO WAS BORN DEAD, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: She is far away. Very far Last Line: Who did not speak, but I listen to you yet Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Sisters 17 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN, by BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR Poem Source First Line: You can't trust him Last Line: You think you can change him Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women 1943, by EVE SHELNUTT Poem Source First Line: You cannot help them, the small declension Last Line: Seeming to open, a dozen men calling out %wait for me Subject(s): Absence 2-MAR, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of her Last Line: It's also the music of loneliness Subject(s): Absence; Memory 2-NOV, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For seven days and nights moscow had staggered Last Line: Not mozart and salieri nor the gypsies %could stisfy my longing on that day Subject(s): Absence; Russia 7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive through utah. They're silent Last Line: The sun pulls back toward noon. Subject(s): Absence; Bodies; Colors; Deserts; Food & Eating; Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Silence; Travel; Utah; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Journeys; Trips A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TO HER LOVER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart breaketh with felicity Last Line: "farewell, farewell, for evermore farewell!" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, come again / your happy sight, so much desired Last Line: To me return again. Subject(s): Absence A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND MISTRESS ELIZA WHEELER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest love, since thou wilt go Last Line: Wee shall not part for ever. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A FAREWELL, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sad rain falls from heaven Last Line: Yet I am sorry to go. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A FAREWELL TO SISTER MARY OF THE BLESSED TRINITY, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Yes, good-bye Last Line: For ever, between you and me. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A GIRL'S SONG, by H. THOMPSON RICH Poem Text First Line: The shadows fall and deepen Last Line: I lift my lips to thee. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Paradise A GOOD-BY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by, my friend!' Last Line: "were this a real 'good-by'!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Separation; Isolation; Parting A HEART-HAUNTED HOME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lisnamaine, since thither he comes no more Last Line: Let so his eyes be dark, his heart be cold. Subject(s): Absence; Haunted Houses; Mothers & Sons; Shadows; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness A HUSBAND'S VOICE, by FRANK WILLIAM HOLSLAG Poem Text First Line: My heart-and your heart Last Line: Since baby's gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies A LADY PRAYETH THE RETURN OF HER LOVER ABIDING ON THE SEAS, by JOHN HEYWOOD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I thus ever long, and be no whit the near? Last Line: That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so! Variant Title(s): To Her Sea-faring Lover Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean A LEAVE-TAKING: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be one word more Last Line: Within my breast. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A LEAVE-TAKING: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand in mine for a space Last Line: And you -- well, the red rose white. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A LENTEN ONE, by LUBOV STOLITZA Poem Text First Line: Noon in golden thaw is garbed with glory Last Line: But our shadowed eyes are our betrayer. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness A LYRIC, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I sing light-souled and fancy-free Last Line: When my loved lord no longer smiles on me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation A MORNING RIDE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The coming day Last Line: The pacing queen one day you'll be! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation A OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the curiousest thing in creation Last Line: "the words ""do they miss me at home?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These winds and suns of spring Last Line: 03/26/80 Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A REMINISCENCE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, thou art gone! And never more Last Line: Has gladdened once our humble sphere. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A SAILOR BOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think I'd like to roam Last Line: Where mother and her kisses are. Subject(s): Absence; February; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!" Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A SIGH, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, I sat within the boat Last Line: Shrill did the sea-mew cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Absence Of; Longing A SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall you return again? Last Line: In all that is! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation A SONG OF SEPARATION, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long stripped days, the nights void of a kiss Last Line: For I remember you do weep no more. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise A TEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a test I designed, in a quiet Last Line: And no mist of distress in her glorious eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation A TRADITION OF OKER HILL IN DARLEY DALE, DERBYSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said that to the brow of yon fair hill Last Line: That to itself takes all, eternity. Subject(s): Trees; Absence; Brothers A WOMAN'S APOLOGY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If always I had slept within your arms Last Line: Deface a sanctuary, tombs, relics, images. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 3. EQUITY, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing how bad he feels, how much he grieves Last Line: For god, who must also grieve cut off from him. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Absence; Mourning; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Bereavement; Theology A' - 18, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An unearthing / my valentine Subject(s): Death; Absence; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation ABEL MARTIN'S LAST LAMENTATIONS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today with the spring Last Line: A drop of joy, a sea of oblivion Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Dreams ABOVE SHELTON LAUREL, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: Fog never lifts, though the days Last Line: Leading back to tennessee Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Grief; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War ABSENCE, by JEANNETTE BARNES Poem Source First Line: Tall poles leaned like dust-bowl fences Last Line: And the desert %carrying these words like water Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE, by JOHN ARTHUR BLAIKIE Poem Text First Line: If not now soft airs may blow Last Line: Pales in that exceeding glory. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my love was away Last Line: If thou wert longer away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From our evening fireside now Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the loss of love's assurance Last Line: The pain without the peace of death! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence, hear thou my protestation Last Line: And so enjoy her and none miss her. Variant Title(s): That Time And Absence Proves Rather Helps Than Hurts To Love Subject(s): Absence; Love; Time; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good night, my love, for I have dreamed of thee Last Line: Till storm and doubt and past no more shall be! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Come to me, love; forget each sordid duty Last Line: Come to me, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: A shadowy sail upon a smooth, sweet sea Last Line: And roseless junes. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: By a cottage with ivy o'er growing Last Line: Beside thee swingeth thy mate. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wanes the garish light of day, and stilly night comes on Last Line: So is thy presence to my heart, so dear art thou to me! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Parting ABSENCE, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are men and women huddled in rooms tonight Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are men and women huddled in rooms tonight Last Line: By anything more comforting than space Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE, by JOHN HOSKINS Poem Text First Line: Absence, hear thou my protestation Last Line: And so enjoye her, and so misse her. Alternate Author Name(s): Hoskyns, John Variant Title(s): Ode Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by RICHARD JAGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With leaden foot time creeps along Last Line: And rest them when she's here. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I do with all the days and hours Last Line: And thy dear thought an influence divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, ever since you went abroad Last Line: And tears are longer ere they dry. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is death's image, -- poets tell us so Last Line: Then vanishes, to multiply my loss. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never thought that heaven would lose its blue Last Line: I never thought they would, and I was right. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by MARIAM PEMBERTON Poem Text First Line: The chimes from the gray stone church Last Line: Your presence came the hour to share. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot sleep, the night is hot and empty Last Line: All of earth's children bow before her will. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is this great absence Last Line: Other than the emptiness without him of my whole %being, a vacuum he may not abhor? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If I a small bird were Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When thou art absent Last Line: By sorrow bestead Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, autumn, friend! And she not yet back? Last Line: With, 'there's one goodbye must be the last.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Absence ABSENCE AND PRESENCE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence is full of song of you which dies Last Line: The selfsame words that fail me in my need. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The ABSENCE OF A HOUSE, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: I see wild-grown grass on a color photograph Last Line: And in the absence %of a house Subject(s): Absence; Houses, Deserted; Solitude ABSENCE OF PRESENCE, by JEFF MOCK Poem Source First Line: One moment, orion tightens Last Line: And orion burning out and shining on Subject(s): Absence; Orion (mythology); Presence ABSENCE OF WATER, by TERRY ANN THAXTON Poem Source First Line: From a prairie of white egrets Last Line: A door must first be opened. %the moon undresses the lake Subject(s): Absence; Water ABSENCE; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absent from thee, beloved, I am pent Last Line: "and cry, ""o time! Haste! Bring my love to me!" Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCES, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dull delight and petty mystery Last Line: And the shadows wait for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Shadows; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares ABSENT, by VIRGINIA HART LIDE Poem Text First Line: Two sons I have away from home Last Line: Like dry earth drinking rain. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers & Sons; Separation; Isolation ABSENT, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: If you were here, I might not see Last Line: Calling to early mass. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENT, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of being surrounded by things Last Line: Mocking me with the emptiness of my house. Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Separation; Isolation ABSENT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse; Separation; Isolation; Parting ABSENT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away Last Line: A pack of hunting hounds of remorse! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse ABSENT DAUGHTER, by MAKI KUREISHI Poem Source First Line: I keep listening Subject(s): Absence ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean AD INTERIM, by HELEN C. LAIRD Poem Text First Line: I think when I look across the street Last Line: And I fail to see it grieve. Subject(s): Absence; Houses; Separation; Isolation ADIEU, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waving whispering trees Last Line: Adieu, farewell, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ADJUSTMENT, by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: If I must live and live without you Last Line: I shall not think of you or of this year and smile. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement ADVICE TO AMANDA, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amanda, since thy lovely frame Last Line: A prize to faithful love Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love ADVICES, VERSES, NOTES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my herbarium %a desiccated afternoon Last Line: Turns and returns. I can't stand it Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence AFTER A PARTING, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell has long been said; I have forgotten thee Last Line: They draw my life, my life, out of my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER AN ABSENCE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an absence that was no one's fault Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER CALLIMACHUS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half my soul still breathes Last Line: With my straining eyes Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER PARTING, by MAUDE HAYNES Poem Text First Line: Although the room which once you knew Last Line: Between an april day and this! Alternate Author Name(s): Hollowell, William Paul, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER PARTING, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I did suffer, though the changing seasons Last Line: As christ did when he turned toward cavalry Subject(s): Absence AFTER PARTING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have sown my love so wide Last Line: And in the night a shaft of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER REPEATED ATTEMPTS, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source Last Line: What it was about you %and I won't remember Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AFTER THE QUARREL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So we, who've supped the self-same cup Last Line: We'll go our ways, the world is wide. Subject(s): Absence; Quarrels; Separation; Isolation; Arguments; Disagreements AFTER THE SEPERATION, DAD TAKES ME TO THE DANCE FOR THE DEAD, by MIRA CHIEKO SHIMABUKURO Poem Source First Line: At eight, we strung rope across oregon Last Line: Each light longing, on its line Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Daughters AFTER YEARS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, from a distance, I saw you Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AGAINST ABSENCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My whining lover, what needs all Last Line: For surfeits sooner kill than fasts. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation AGE OF PIRACY, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They reach through her brow Last Line: Wings in their teeth beating backwards Subject(s): Absence AGNOSIA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A far star is making leaves Last Line: A girl, waterjug, edges adjusting in time Subject(s): Absence AH, WHAT HAVE I DONE, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Ah, what have I done -- as though I didn't Last Line: I felt as I was letting him go Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships AL LINE TO MARS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It begins with a line to mars Last Line: Desire, a crowd, surrounding her without one Subject(s): Absence ALL THAT IS GREEN, by ROB GRIFFITH Poem Source First Line: This halogen morning, we'll take you Last Line: All that returns from memory %in the wreckage of every spring Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Mothers ALLEGRO OF THE EARTH, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It takes many doves to make a woman Last Line: I'm aware of one thing Subject(s): Absence ALMOST HIM, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Excuse me, but Last Line: Just for a minute Subject(s): Absence; Memory ALMOST WINTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Just now, when ice first cuts Last Line: Fresh snow on the river %frost on the lawn Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory ALONE, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: All gone with the wind, all swept away by the light Last Line: My ear heard that quiet wept %that boiling tear - - Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Absence ALONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When we're together, how the moments fly! Last Line: When years of life are heard to crash and fall! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ALONE, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's soft golden meshes make Last Line: A swoon of shame Subject(s): Solitude; Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ALONE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: We are one body, one breath Last Line: Your ground snow and dust Subject(s): Absence ALONE, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There should be two words, dearest, one made up Last Line: The other meaning we're alone -- apart. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ALONE BY THE BAY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is gone, o my heart, he is gone Last Line: Kept time in their ebb and flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ALONE IN THE WORLD, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is our slab of marble Last Line: Or whether or not %it was fathered Subject(s): Absence AMORETTI: 78, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lacking my love, I go from place to place Last Line: And let my thoughts behold her selfe in mee. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "lacking My Love I Go From Place To Place,""; Subject(s): Absence AMORETTI: 87, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have lacked the comfort of that light Last Line: I starve my body, and mine eyes doe blynd. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Absence AMORETTI: 88, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the culver on the bared bough Last Line: And dead my life that wants such lively blis. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): Amoretti: 89 Subject(s): Absence AMOROUS ANTICIPATION, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the intimacy of your forehead clear as a celebration Last Line: The fiction of time destroyed, %without love, without me Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence AMUSIA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world is mortal Last Line: Cannot hear, august, gone, %the counter-counter-pieces Subject(s): Absence AN ABSENT FRIEND, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious goddess in her eyes / were you, her comrade, and your songs Last Line: And in her heart sick longing grows. Subject(s): Absence; Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Separation; Isolation AN EAGLE FOLDS HIS WINGS, by SIEG HALBERG Poem Text First Line: Like a mighty eagle he soared Last Line: For at last the eagle was folding his wings. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The AN ELEGIAC BALLAD, by HANNAH COWLEY Poem Text First Line: Where is my lover and my friend? Last Line: I join my lover and my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Matilda, Anna; Parkhouse, Hannah Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AN ILLUSION, by MARGHERITA GARDNER FETTER Poem Text First Line: If I could have seen you depart Last Line: Our souls thrilled as they smiled to meet. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love; Separation; Isolation AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again / the world all gold Last Line: Never again! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness AND YET, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are so many islands, separated Last Line: Dispersed vaporized %still there Subject(s): Absence ANGELS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two shinning women. %I will not betray you with Last Line: And your meticulous absence %of wing Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Heaven; Wings ANGELS OF DESPERATION AND ABANDONMENT, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: The blind man's angel is touch Last Line: The dead man's angel weeps desolately and, like a young widow seeks out a new man Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Angels; Widows And Widowers ANHEDONIA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deciduous trees sleep well in winter Last Line: Hoard of my wild life Subject(s): Absence ANITA, by FREDERICK STANLEY CAMP Poem Text First Line: All in solitude and silence Last Line: Does she ever think of me? Subject(s): Absence ANOTHER LINEAGE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, blind father, let me show you the way Last Line: Of another breed sublimely insane! Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roses ANOTHER POETICS, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: The eye that sees Last Line: Dry water for a lingering thirst Subject(s): Absence; Poetry And Poets ANSWER, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: You told me not to answer Last Line: I will be waiting %not to hear from you Subject(s): Absence; Letters ANSWERING THE POEM LEFT BY MR. SU, NOMINALLY OF THE BUREAU OF FORESTRY, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Humbly I dwell by the valley's mouth Last Line: A bell's infrequent tolling that broke %through gibbons' night cries Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests ANYBODY SPEAKING WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing can breathe Last Line: To gain here. Gone, %nothing can stir Subject(s): Absence APART, by GERTRUDE SPALDING HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I would not call thee back to me to-night Last Line: We still shall touch each other soul to soul. Subject(s): Absence; Wellesley College; Separation; Isolation APART, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stood on either side the gate Last Line: Walk hand in hand the path of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fear; Trees; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The APART IN THE WINTER, by NARPATI NALHA Poem Source First Line: November saw the prince set off abroad Last Line: My golden body's yours to rule! Subject(s): Absence; Winter APOCRYPHA, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Everything will be forsaken then Last Line: Trickling, the empty ditch trickles down Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Exiles; Farewell; Human Rights; Love - Loss Of; Orphans; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude APOSTASY, FAILED, by LESLIE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Wet air and the wet edge of my body meet Last Line: So much that I denied, denied %denied loving them, all my life Subject(s): Absence; Life; Love ARIADNE WRITES TO THESEUS AT RANDOM, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been away so long Last Line: Around the silence in my heart Subject(s): Absence; Ariadne ARMORIAL BEARINGS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Laughing out of one's discomfort and into Last Line: And knd, for the time is despicably %bright Subject(s): Absence ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ Poem Text First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips ART OF VANISHING, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Who's never studied it? Doesn't recognize Last Line: Does it lying down, without the mirrors Subject(s): Absence AS I TOSSED, by MAEHWA Poem Source First Line: As I tossed deeply into night, turned Last Line: The night-worn lines across my face Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Insomnia; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pain AS IF I WERE WAITING FOR SOMEONE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines into my room Last Line: As if I were waiting perpetually for someone Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Waiting AS IN A GLASS: 2. SPACE, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: I could not reach you and I heard you call Last Line: And there were you -- with your hand reaching out to me. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ASSEVERATIVE FAREWELL, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Misery loves company, and aye Last Line: Not to fall into this vertigo alone Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Pain AT COLD SOLSTICE, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: At cold solstice I cut Last Line: A night spread out again for you Subject(s): Absence; Waiting AT PARTING, by E. PEARL DANCEY Poem Text First Line: This, then, is 'goodbye.' this empty aching Last Line: Love's silent ghost were keeping step with me. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AT PARTING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so we part! Last Line: And I have heart to rhyme. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Lips; Smiles; Separation; Isolation AT SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu' was the burden prevailing Last Line: Farewell and adieu. Subject(s): Absence; Roundels; Sea; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Ocean; Journeys; Trips AT THE WICKET-GATE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There floated the sounds of church-chiming Last Line: As thence we withdrew. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AT THE WORD 'FAREWELL', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She looked like a bird from a cloud Last Line: When we came in together. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ATLANTIS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the chill seas of yesterday Last Line: Why in the world were you ever begun? Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ATTENTION TO DETAIL, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She who was passed in the passing Last Line: Old by some kind of fruit-stain, %tattoo of the weak who relish design Subject(s): Absence AUCTIONEER OF PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To two - not at more Variant Title(s): Poem: 1612; Poem: 164 Subject(s): Absence AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little gate was reached at last Last Line: "she said, -- ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Absence; Summer; Separation; Isolation AUGUST SUNDAY, by PATRICE VECCHIONE Poem Source First Line: Pressing your hand to my ass Last Line: Dissolves slowly like bitter fruit %under my weeping tongue Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AUGUST THE 12TH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are two scars on a dead woman's belly Last Line: Tell us where you are, %tell us why you are silent now Subject(s): Absence; Brothers AVALANCHE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look toward the snow Last Line: As everything slid and slid Subject(s): Absence AWAKE AT NIGHT, RUINED BY THE MOCKING, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: A cockroach crawled across my chest last night Last Line: And the large basin hummed like a bell Subject(s): Absence; Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Marriage AXIOM OF MARIA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clover fills the darkness quickly, Last Line: Coming and going in streaks. Subject(s): Absence BAGS WE PACKED AND WE EXPECTED THIS, by RAMONA WILSON Poem Source First Line: Let us say good-bye Last Line: Though the sun races %in the end we do but sleep Subject(s): Absence BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF BOBBING JOAN, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ne'er yet saw a lovely creature Last Line: Troth, I shall court the next I see. Subject(s): Absence; Courtship BALLADE, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Within the forest of sad wearinesse Last Line: "a man astraye that knowes not where he goes." Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Variant Title(s): Go, Sad Complaint Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation BALLADE, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sely ankir [anker], that in thy selle [celle] Last Line: Wo worth is me to be thus in absence! %go, dulle, complaynt,my lady this report Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Variant Title(s): Go, Sad Complain Subject(s): Absence BALLADE OF LOST LOVES, by WILLIAM JAMES PRICE Poem Text First Line: The music dies away; the guests departs Last Line: The girls are many, and the world is wide! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation BALLATA: IN EXILE AT SARZANA, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I think not ever to return Last Line: Still in her purity. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation BARRIER, by MIRIAM BARRANGER Poem Text First Line: We have been near to meeting Last Line: Yours will find the way. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Rain, rain, beautiful rain Last Line: Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mothers; Rain; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness BECAUSE I'M ALL THAT'S GONE, by JOHANNA KELLER Poem Source First Line: Because I'm all that's gone, I am the crushed Last Line: Vibrate between us, where I ceased to be Subject(s): Absence; Refuse And Refuse Disposal BEFORE HE COMES WE WEIGH THE TIME!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the prevailing freight Variant Title(s): Poem: 834; Poem: 94 Subject(s): Absence BEFORE SAILING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lean closer, darling, let thy tender heart" Last Line: "we are not sundered, though farewell be said" Subject(s): Absence;farewell;kisses;love; Separation;isolation;parting BEFORE THEY CROSS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: Before they cross this mountain ridge Last Line: And I will yield no pause, no rest Subject(s): Absence BEING HIS MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being his mother, -- when he goes away Last Line: As when not christ alone was crucified. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Sons; Tears; Separation; Isolation BELOVED SISTER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Let me be %your daughter Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina BENEFITS OF DROWNING, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The light has been so awful Last Line: Not a skeleton, not plagued %not by ghosts Subject(s): Absence BEYOND, by ALLAN MUNIER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the prison cell Last Line: In peace without you? Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hunger; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness BIENVENUE; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome day that ends the weary night Last Line: Whose circling arms enclose my paradise! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation BIOLOGY OF HEAVEN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All things which are soft become soft Last Line: I'm human, I'm human, I know that I know Subject(s): Absence BIRD CRIES FROM THE NEST IN THE EAVES AT MORNING: SELF-PORTRAIT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When the mother's gone the young sparrows cry Last Line: Calculating the progress of the cat's claw Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Portraits BLACK TEA, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That wedding song keeps thrumming in my head like da vinci's Last Line: Into worlds of wild honey. The gods are in the leaves. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Separation; Isolation BLACK TREES ON A MISTY DAY, by IRIS ELIZABETH SPARKS Poem Text First Line: Black trees on a misty day Last Line: Stamp me with impending night. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation BLACK-EYED SUSAN, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in the downs the fleet was moored Last Line: "adieu!"" she cried; and waved her lily hand." Variant Title(s): Sweet William's Farewell To Black-eyed Susan Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Ocean BLUE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: See my colors fall apart? Green Subject(s): Colors; Landscape; Absence; Separation; Isolation BLUE STREAM, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Blue stream, don't show off your speed Last Line: Slow yourself, rest, then go Variant Title(s): Kisiang Poe Subject(s): Absence; Brooks; Farewell; Valleys BLUEBELLS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bared too, I take a risk Last Line: What the rain worms acquire Subject(s): Absence BODY OF A WOMAN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs Last Line: And weariness follows, and the infinite ache Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Love - Loss Of BONNIE LESLEY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O saw ye bonnie lesley Last Line: There's nane again sae bonnie. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation BOOK OF ODES: 82, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She says, 'cocks are crowing!' Last Line: If I know that you love me, %I'll repay you with assorted belt-stones Subject(s): Absence BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER, by ROBERT ZIMMERMAN Poem Source First Line: Oh, I'm sailing away my own true love Last Line: Spanish boots of spanish leather Subject(s): Absence BRIDGE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have come a long way today Last Line: Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Absence; Friendship BROKEN WINGS, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: The prison? It is very sad Last Line: My cell to paradise! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Nature Of BROTHER WHERE DOST THOU DWELL?, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or else forgot Subject(s): Absence BY THE ALMA RIVER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willie, fold your little hands Last Line: "by the alma river." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Absence; Alma River (russia); Crimean War (1853-1856); Rivers; Russia; War; Separation; Isolation; Soviet Union; Russians BY THE CAMP FIRE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide Last Line: Some light of knowledge would be shed, and some few riddles would be read. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Religion BYSTANDER'S POWER, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man won't need to rise Last Line: To meet their ugliest selves Subject(s): Absence CAELIA: SONNETS: 13, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, steal not on too fast: we have not yet Last Line: And will once make us happier than the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation CAELIA: SONNETS: 14, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divinest caelia, send no more to ask Last Line: I cannot tell him, till I ask of you. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation CAELIA: SONNETS: 7, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest, when I am gone, as now the glass Last Line: As for the smell we like the rose's beauty. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation CAELIA: SONNETS: 8, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As oft as I meet one that comes from you Last Line: Love me alone and say alone you love me. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation CAELICA: 45, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence, the noble truce Last Line: Absence is pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Absence And Presence Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation CALL OF THE DESIROUS, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source First Line: Desirous is one who gets away from his mother Last Line: Who never want to rebegin the same card, the same night with its same monstrous flank? Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Death CALYPSO, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She found him facing out into the fog Last Line: Leaving her man to men's devices, and the wind %struck at her face as walked weeping home Subject(s): Absence CAMEO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First you are born, %boren, old english, past participle Last Line: Followed by doves, the same act, then a rabbit Subject(s): Absence CAMP OF NO RETURN, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the old tree swing without swinging. My loafer had fallen off Subject(s): Sisters; Absence; Separation; Isolation CANCION, by MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Poem Source First Line: What makes me languish and complain? Last Line: When death or madness is the cure! Subject(s): Absence CANTICA, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of CANTIGA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go Last Line: Are penalties the absent know. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Absence; Change; Forgetfulness; Spain; Separation; Isolation CANTILENA MUNDI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the rainbows rise through sunset rains Last Line: "to-morrow all the world is not." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Presence; Rainbows; Voices; Separation; Isolation; World CANTRIP FOR LOST ARIEL, by ELIOT WILSON Poem Source First Line: Leprechaun spunk, hair of spastic gypsy trollop, left brain of Last Line: Pull from nothing a perfect dove, but the magic that %mattered is gone Subject(s): Absence CAPPELLA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were lying in the shoreline Last Line: Into octaves as he underwent alone Subject(s): Absence CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The light like a feeble hostage Last Line: Eyes, from the blindfold slashed and sullied from lonely times and prisms Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women; Women - Captives CENTRIPETAL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This time if there is time if time Last Line: Remains. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love - Loss Of; New Mexico; Separation; Isolation CHAMBER MUSIC: 9, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winds of may, that dance on the sea Last Line: Love is unhappy when love is away! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation CHARMS, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: The christmas I was seven my father left - for good this time Last Line: Lights illuminate him bent to the task of putting together a bike %painted a strange shade of green Subject(s): Absence; Christmas; Fathers; Gifts And Giving CHIAROSCURO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Their throats are bursting Last Line: On the floor of a womb Subject(s): Absence CHIMNEYS, by ALICE FRASER Poem Text First Line: Empty chimneys stand like tombstones Last Line: So will I stand when you are gone. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation CHRIST'S RECALL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Return, / o wanderer from my side! Last Line: My wrath is turned away, I have redeemed thee. Subject(s): Absence; Jesus Christ; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sickness brought me to connecticut. Last Line: Forwarded, will begin to reach me here Subject(s): Christmas; Absence; Nativity, The; Separation; Isolation CHUNK OF MARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the minute I think of any one of you I'm lost, all of you Last Line: When a chunk of mars drops into someone's cornfield I promise you I'll find you Subject(s): Absence; Love CIRCLING DISEASE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sum of things is the least of things Last Line: Mother at the apogee, legs glued shut Subject(s): Absence CITY OF 12,000 BRIDGES, SUZHOU, by DANEEN WARDROP Poem Source Last Line: Who never thought to write to me Subject(s): Absence; China; Cities; Travel CLEAR WATER, by J. M. SOLIS Poem Source First Line: Marvellous clearness of the gentle water Last Line: Thou saidst, 'amen' Subject(s): Absence; Crying; Tears CLEFT, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cut in half, the breast bone broken, opened Last Line: Bones of the child's small back, wings, %she could fly, she could walk out the kitchen door Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women CLICK-ROSE 2: 11, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Rose zooming on the thing zeroing in on Last Line: Now we have to put up with close-up the grain of your skin %frightening so near without my being abl Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Roses CLICK-ROSE 2: 19, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source First Line: Ronsard's has stuck its head out the door which doesn't shut Last Line: Certain days the past idle is the opposite of the presence of %the rose Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Roses CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 5. OF TEMPERANCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sad and lonely (clorus) doest thou stand Last Line: N'a jamais fin, ne terme. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation CLISTHERET, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: I heard a sleave of song Last Line: To liberty, to manacle Subject(s): Absence; Freedom; Love CLOSETS HAVE REMAINED EMPTY FOREVER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Then she begins to sing Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Emptiness; Human Rights - Argentina; Memory; Pictures COLIN AND PHEBE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My time, o ye muses, was happily spent Last Line: Take heed, all ye swains, how ye part with your fair! Variant Title(s): A Pastoral Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation COME AWAY!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Ah, love! Come away with me Last Line: A magic memory. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation COME BACK!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Oh why did you heed, eugene Last Line: Come back for me, eugene, eugene! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COME BACK--, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Far inside Last Line: We'll run everywhere and pretend to hide, %every one of us, every one Subject(s): Absence; Thought COME HOME, by ELEANOR C. KOENIG Poem Text First Line: Come home, john kane, things have changed in our valley Last Line: Come home, come home and -- do not dally. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Reunions; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips COME HOME!, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come home! There is a sorrowing breath Last Line: Alone is wanting there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation COME, COME, WHAT DO I HERE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To wake in thee Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence COMING OF AGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those times I spent Last Line: Moves on into night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Mothers COMPLAINT OF THE ABSENCE OF HER LOVER BEING UPON THE SEA, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy dames! That may embrace Last Line: -- now he comes! Will he come? Alas! No, no. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): The Seafarer Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation COMPLAINT OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The count don sancho diaz, the signior of saldane Last Line: When thou shalt weep in dungeon deep, and none thy weeping see Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Old Age; Prisoners Of War COMPLAINT: TO THE MUSE, by PHILIP WHALEN Poem Source First Line: You do understand I've waited long enough Last Line: & you been a long time gone Subject(s): Absence COMRADES, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, pour the wine tonight Last Line: When strong men die together! Subject(s): Absence; Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Friendship; War; Separation; Isolation; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse CONFESSION 11.23.29, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: My mouth brings loss to me Last Line: Which draws away from me Subject(s): Absence; Confessions CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 7. YOU HAVE TO COME OVER SOON, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the pollinated air Last Line: The door amazed and quite alarmed Subject(s): Absence; Spring CONSTANCY, FR. SERAGLIO, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear Last Line: Blow high, blow low! Let tempest tear,' etc. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery; Ocean CONSTANT PENELOPE SENDS TO THEE, CARELESS ULYSSES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: " Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Absence CONSUMMATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: In a garden, soul to soul we met and loved Last Line: On a moonlit-glow: 'twere better death would wed. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness CONTRACT, by KAREN THEMSTRUP Poem Source First Line: This fall, all the leaves die Last Line: The body can arrange its own murder Subject(s): Absence; Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons CONVERSATION OF OLD HUSBANDS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She's gone, clemente, I know Last Line: When you look at her, clemente, %I see her too Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Marriage COOKING IN TONGUES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's hands drip Last Line: As we peel skin from the sopressata Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Love CORA LEE, by WALTER E. ISENHOUR Poem Text First Line: As backward turn my thoughts today Last Line: "ah, this is cora lee!" Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation CORALS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Below man, below hearing Last Line: To empty its backbone Subject(s): Absence CRAZY OLD MAN FROM FARIBAULT, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: You'll find him in this town Last Line: And the blind squint defiantly into dawn Subject(s): Absence; Death; Old Age CRAZY WITHOUT LOVE, by ROSEMARY KLEIN Poem Source First Line: There is a strange quietness Last Line: Naked on my bed getting religion Subject(s): Absence; Love; Poetry And Poets CROCODILIA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The air yellows Last Line: Softly biting Subject(s): Absence CROWS CRY AT NIGHT, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the walls in yellow clouds Last Line: And stays in her chamber all alone %where her tears fall like the rain Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Crows CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HIS ABSENCE FROM HER, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till now I doubted whether love, or sight Last Line: Shalt be the subject of love's innocence. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation CYPRESS, by JOSE A. CALCANO Poem Source First Line: Should you pass by my grave Last Line: Of that sad cypress tree! Subject(s): Absence; Cypress Trees; Graves; Love - Loss Of CYPRESS, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: The dead man longed to see his love Last Line: Out of the churchyard clay Subject(s): Absence DAD'S SHOES, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: He's gone now, and so Last Line: No harm, it's just a lace Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Poetry And Poets DAISY, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the thistle lifts a purple crown Last Line: And perish in our own. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Gardens & Gardening; Separation; Isolation; Childhood DARK BLESSING, by JESSIE FARNHAM Poem Text First Line: Physicians said the chance was very dim Last Line: Had found himself in her unseeing eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation DAVID AND BATHSHUA: BATHSHUA'S PRAYER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Father of life, of light, of love Last Line: The life, the light, that was our day! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; David (d. 962 B.c.); Memory; Prayer; Separation; Isolation DAWN'S ECHO, by MARIE L. SIEBOLD Poem Text First Line: My heart is like an empty nest Last Line: Dawn sees only the reticent heart! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation DAY AND NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In warsaw in poland Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Longing; Separation; Isolation DAY OF SCATTERED RAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It is a day of scattered rain Last Line: And let me break open! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory DEAD FISH ON THE SHORE WITH CLAMS, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: It is winter Last Line: To abandon hope Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Clams; Cuba; Death; Marine Animals; Sea Voyages DEAD GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ashes, like seas breeding into themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement DEAD GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ashes, like oceans swarming Last Line: Of what's full, dark with heavy drops Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning DEAD IDYLL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is she doing now, my andean, sweet Last Line: And in the roof's thatched canes, a wild bird will cry Subject(s): Absence DEAR JOHN, by SUSAN BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Thank you for suffering blue-balls continuously for three years dur Last Line: Garland of thanksgiving for you, dear john Subject(s): Absence; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Relationships DEAREST ONE; A SONG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My thoughts are all of thee Last Line: Dearest one, o dearest one. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The human body is transparent Last Line: A flow without a vein Subject(s): Absence DEDICATION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not call you when the wind Last Line: With a low murmur, like the seas? Subject(s): Absence; Silence; Separation; Isolation DEER CROSSING THE SEA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many things were like sleep Last Line: A scent that would paralyze god Subject(s): Absence DELIVERER, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one can spin forever Last Line: Belly no longer with jonah Subject(s): Absence DEPARTURE FROM GRENADA, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Such a crush to push through Last Line: Without even iron over the neck, %wind with a king's grating voice Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Grenada (island); Solitude DEPARTURE OF KING SEBASTIAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was a lusitanian lady, and she was lofty in degree Last Line: At young sebastian's feet?' she said -- 'the lord hath blessed my king' Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Melancholy; Sebastian. King Of Portugal (1554-1578) DESOLATION-A DREAM, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: You need not pour two cups this morn Last Line: I am alone, alone. ... And growing old! Subject(s): Absence; Desolation; Separation; Isolation DEVOLUTION, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She raises her arm and spills sand Last Line: Where her breasts were is desert Subject(s): Absence DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: SOMETHING SO CLOSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Something so close to the soul Last Line: Something true and not yet real, beautiful Subject(s): Absence; Diaries; Dreams DIE LUAN HUA, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: The butterfly does not love the flowers, though the flowers love the butterfly Last Line: Did you have to leave for the suzhou moon? Subject(s): Absence; Butterflies; Insects DISTANCE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from my earthly home Last Line: Dear, to be far from thee. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation DISTANT FOOTSTEPS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father sleeps. His august expression Last Line: Down them, my heart travels on foot Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Parents DISTRACTED, by PEDRO SALINAS Poem Source First Line: You are no longer here. What I see Last Line: And you show me your absence Subject(s): Absence; Hearts DIVIDED, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The half-world's width divides us Last Line: And dieth towards thee with the dying day! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation DO NOT DISTURB, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Offshore salt lapping up against a lighthouse flashing red Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation DO NOTHING TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motionlessly, waiting Last Line: Though nonetheless it's sincere Subject(s): Absence DONNA MARINA: WITHOUT YOUR LOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Without your love, life hath no hope for me Last Line: And live—without your love? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation DOPPELGANGER, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thought I loved light in the morning Last Line: Thought I had a stake. %didn't know me Subject(s): Absence DOROTHEA TANNING'S COUSINS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to him in dreams, as he to her Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The DOROTHEA TANNING'S COUSINS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to him in dreams, as he to her Last Line: What lovers need friends? Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love DOUBLE SEVENTH EVENING, by HO NANSOLHON Poem Source First Line: The stars meet early, what is there to be sad about? Last Line: For humans the separation lasts a year Subject(s): Absence DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation DRINKING BEACH, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Where have you gone %my shrinking beach Last Line: My pined for and dreamt of %my drinking beach Subject(s): Absence DURESSOR, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In darkness, crabs are believed to rest Last Line: Combing the sand without minds Subject(s): Absence DUSK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk over the lake Last Line: That I shatter the moon with an oar. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Dusk; Separation; Isolation E.W.D., by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sudden knowledge that you are not there Last Line: Of the old pain. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EADWACER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It is to my own as if the man made them a gift Last Line: It takes little to loose a link never made, %our gladness together Subject(s): Absence EARTH'S MASQUERADE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Earth had a merry time last night Last Line: Has pressed me to her throbbing heart! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation ECLOGUE: SALICIO AND NEMOROSO, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet lament of two castilian swains Last Line: Did, face to face upbraid her questioned %truth Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Love - Loss Of EDGE LIGHT, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Rock cliffs of florence, storm light of beach and sky Last Line: An arc of edge light, sheaf of memory, %cloud line disappearing Subject(s): Absence; Aviation And Aviators; Oregon; Postage Stamps; Travel EDITH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Time, that doth take what none would give Last Line: I shall be satisfied. Subject(s): Absence; Consolation; Death; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EEL, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then I will rest Last Line: A bog that hangs in the balance %before swallowing god Subject(s): Absence EIDOLA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything unreal is alike Last Line: Clean with moon, blackening with absence, %anonymous, not true Subject(s): Absence EITHER, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A northern hill aghast with weather Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Absence; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation ELEGY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: After she died, I spent my days knowing I would only have Last Line: Wept, remembering her voice Subject(s): Absence ELEGY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Through air beaten back, beaten Last Line: Begin their lonely dissolve %into swans Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ELEGY FOR BELLS, by SARAH HANNAH GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember the sound of the old phone ringing? Last Line: The pain in it ringing, %and in it ringing no longer Subject(s): Absence; Bells; Family Life; Telephones ELEGY FOR MARIA BELEN CHACON, by EMILIO BALLAGAS Poem Source First Line: Maria belen, maria belen, maria belen Last Line: From santiago to camaguey Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Hearts; Heaven ELEGY FOR YOUR ABSENCE, by EUGENIO FLORIT Poem Source First Line: In that moment you sailed for all of death Last Line: And you shall discover your nest in a tree of stars Subject(s): Absence; Death; Peace ELEGY: KAWAMURA YOICHI (1932-1995), by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: They were utterly %beautiful, those ancient songs Last Line: Yoichi was such a joy Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Sympathy ELEGY: OF HIS LADIES NOT COMING TO LONDON, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That ten-years-travel'd greek return'd from sea Last Line: So would I not have you but come away. Subject(s): Absence; London; Separation; Isolation ELSEWHERE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear, I heard Last Line: Just lost, a ruse Subject(s): Absence EMPTY HOUSE, by GARNET HAMRICK Poem Text First Line: Silence sits a-rocking in her chair Last Line: Craving warmth that comes with spring. Subject(s): Absence; Silence; Separation; Isolation EMPTY PAGE, by SARA DE IBANEZ Poem Source First Line: How to make this impure Last Line: And in spring's no Subject(s): Absence; Hallucinations And Illusions EMPTY ROOM, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: My wife is %gone Last Line: I'll rise above the far-off river, %a crescent moon Subject(s): Absence; Death; Emptiness; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Prisons And Prisoners EMPTY ROOMS 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: The dripping tap. Keepsakes in the drawer. Glowing coals. The cat's nest on Last Line: Going? Your hand's half-raised to greet or wave goodbye, like this Subject(s): Absence; Farewell END OF A MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Three years after the death Last Line: How to divorce a man %who has been dead three years? Subject(s): Absence; Child Molesting; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women ENTER THE DRAGON, by FRANCES SALOME ESPANA Poem Source First Line: I'll file my little horns sharp Last Line: I forgot to light the candle for %tonight Subject(s): Absence; Candles; Fathers; Prayer ENTRESOL, by JAIME SABINES GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: A wardrobe, a mirror, a chair Last Line: I take away my hand, which writes and speaks much Subject(s): Absence; Love; Writing And Writers ENVOY OF THE BOAT, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He loves what he cannot love Last Line: More sky in his mouth than water Subject(s): Absence EOHIPPUS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wooded area has wed itself Last Line: In a midnight saturnalia Subject(s): Absence EPIPHANY, WITH SWANS, by MARYBETH BOYANTON Poem Source First Line: Finally, the quiet of standing water: a somber pool Last Line: To me that july day of life. Was that just it? Observed and noted; gone Subject(s): Absence; Prophets And Prophecy EPISTLE FROM ONE ABSENT EDITOR TO ANOTHER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Subscribers to ye! J.T.B. Last Line: Meet nae worse person. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care Last Line: Look sow'r, and hum a tune -- as you may now. Variant Title(s): Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town;to A Young Lady On Her Leaving The Town Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Separation; Isolation; Urban Life EPITAPH IN A CHURCH-YARD IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died of 'stranger's fever' when his youth Last Line: Ached with fatigue at never seeing home. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ESSAY: FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER SPED APART, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What symmetry can there be Last Line: In pursuit of roads and balance, birds. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation ESTRANGEMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path from me to you that led Last Line: Where murmuring bees your name repeat. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EUPHORIA OF ROPE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all voices cease Last Line: We would die again to know Subject(s): Absence EVENING, by DONALD R. STEELE Poem Text First Line: I see the sun Last Line: Alone, without you. Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness EVENTIME, by JESSIE M. GILMORE Poem Text First Line: They gather around me at eventime Last Line: That I see by the ember's glow. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness; Thinking EVERYTHING RISING OUT OF PONDS, by TOM CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: I was told I should not Last Line: Down here we are breaking in two Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love EXCEPT FOR A FEW FOOTPRINTS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So. Yes. But still there is this peace between us Last Line: You say my name, you remind me %and I return Subject(s): Absence; Footprints; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships EXCUSE OF ABSENCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will ask, perhaps, wherefore I stay Last Line: To wander far from you, the centre. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EXILE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands Last Line: Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation FADED FLOWERS, by MARY M. RANDLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Tis a crimson bud I treasured years ago Last Line: That life is fair and all is well with thee. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation FAERY LANDS FORLORN, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From aalesund at midnight northward seen Last Line: And joy's low islets lit in solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Absence; Solitude FAIRE FAIRE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It comes from eternity Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation FALL, by JOSEPH UPPER HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Two buzzards float solemnly over the lonely water Last Line: And far off the voice of winter, hungry, ominous. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FAMILY HISTORY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: In response to his letter, I wrote back in longhand Last Line: His horse had accepted the departure Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief FANCY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: How sad my life had been were't not for her Last Line: Come then, sweet fancy -- surnamed joy by me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FANTASIA, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: He lived in the glow of her smile Last Line: And blazing emerald the earth Subject(s): Absence; Fantasy; Love; Travel FAR AWAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away! -- my home is far away Last Line: Far away! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FAREWELL, by FRANZ EMANUEL GEIBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One goblet more I drink to thee Last Line: My little maid, good-night! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FAREWELL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o eager faces that surround me Last Line: Shrine of dead dream! O temple of my tears! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting FAREWELL, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let mine eyes the parting take Last Line: Within, weird autumn's misery. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FAREWELL SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stirs, with sad alarm, the heart Last Line: Of this our last farewell, farewell! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FAREWELL SONG, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't laugh and didn't sing Last Line: And the silent, stale, hasty %last repast Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Absence FAREWELL TO NANCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae fond kiss, and then we sever Last Line: Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Variant Title(s): Song;a Fond Kiss Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting FAREWELL! BUT WHENEVER YOU WELCOME THE HOUR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Absence FATHERS AND SONS, by JOSEPH T. COX Poem Source First Line: My boy lives a half a world away, a man Last Line: Will always and never again be my little boy Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Fathers And Sons; Soldiers FEBRUARY 13,1980, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-one years of my life you have been Last Line: Whatever I say Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FEBRUARY 13,1980, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-one years of my life you have been Last Line: But I am not grown away from you %whatever I say Subject(s): Absence FEELINGS EVOKED BY AN AUTUMN NIGHT: 3, by CHU SHU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: A hundred illnesses arise from idle frustration and sorrow Last Line: Then the heartbreak of separation may be cast and stamped forever Subject(s): Absence FENDER DRUMMING, by DAN MASTERSON Poem Source First Line: The unused lot behind the mall is lit Last Line: Their women who sense a final thunder Subject(s): Absence; Automobiles FIGURE OF A HORSEMAN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: The frieze of life forces Last Line: Or an illusion caused by the winds %warm april wind? Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Hallucinations And Illusions; Horses; Prisons And Prisoners FINK'S, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT Poem Source First Line: When I told you about fink's bar Last Line: So that of which we cannot speak %is said completely clearly Subject(s): Absence; Travel FINLANDIA, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: I follow you through Last Line: To breathe the miracle alone Subject(s): Absence; Finland; Islands; Solitude; Travel FIRE AND WATER, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: After you bathed Last Line: Against my burning face Subject(s): Absence; Farewell FIREFLIES, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source First Line: A thin mist %has flowered the tips of peach tree branches Last Line: With paper lanterns on our shoulders Subject(s): Absence; Fireflies; Flowers; Spring FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FLAMENCO SKETCHES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Until the end- %I've traveled to other terrains Last Line: Inside my head you multiply %chrysanthemum smiles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Memory FLIGHT OF THE ALONE TO THE ALONE, by J. TARWOOD Poem Source First Line: Talk. Talk. %talk about anything Last Line: At the groin. %just talk. Talk Subject(s): Absence; Swimming FLIGHT OF THE MICE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a small dream, like our dream Last Line: Loss, concrete as the race against time Subject(s): Absence FLORENCE MACCARTHY'S FAREWELL TO HER ENGLISH LOVER, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We seem to tread the self-same street Last Line: That sigh to me from lands not thine. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting FLOWERTIME WEATHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I are together Last Line: It is everywhere winter to me. Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Winter; Separation; Isolation FLYING HOME, by BOB SLAYMAKER Poem Source First Line: You are with me now Last Line: And wake you %from our week apart Subject(s): Absence FOLKSONG: THE FAITHFUL WIFE, by CHANDIDAS Poem Source First Line: My love has gone away and taken all my joy Last Line: My crazy fool will come and take all that you have Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity FOLLOWING THE LIGHT, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile hath called me mutely Last Line: We will hold our tryst Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today there've been moments Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today there've been moments Last Line: Whatever's driving those flocks %and drove the b & m freights into air Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads FOR A DAUGHTER GONE AWAY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they shook the box, and poured out its chances Subject(s): Absence; Daughters FOR A STILL-BORN NIECE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: A thousand miles from you, sister Last Line: As becomes for the child's soul Subject(s): Absence; Sisters; Stillbirth FOR ANNE, by LEONARD COHEN Poem Source First Line: With annie gone Last Line: But I do compare %now that she's gone Subject(s): Absence FOR D., by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The plane whumps down through rainclouds, streaks Subject(s): Absence; Air Travel; Separation; Isolation FOR FIVE LONG YEARS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: The ax lay at your roots in deadly hush Last Line: A mystery which awes, transcends the mind of man. Subject(s): Absence; Death, Return From; Separation; Isolation FOR ONE WHO WENT IN SPRING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She did not go, as others do Last Line: Forgetting that she is not here. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FOR REMEMBERING HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your loneliness and mine Subject(s): Absence; Change; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness FOREIGN LAND, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: I work in a foreign country Last Line: And I'll have lost everything in a foreign country Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FORLORN, MY LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn, my love, no comfort near Last Line: O wert thou, &c. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FORTUNO CARRACCIOLI, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fat woman in the flat across the street Subject(s): Love - Absence Of; Social Classes; Labor & Laborers; Caste; Work; Workers FORTY YEARS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These forty years! And forty years ago Last Line: Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain? Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 3. SEPARATION OF LOVERS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop the chafed boar, or play Last Line: Love of a consumption dies. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FREEDOM, by K. VON K. BRUNS Poem Text First Line: Will you miss me / when I am gone, my sweet' Last Line: And the lord who would come no more. Subject(s): Absence; Freedom; Separation; Isolation; Liberty FRENCH ONION, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Columbine dives deeper than pap Last Line: Her, out the other end, pearl %in his mouth, no shell to speak of Subject(s): Absence FRESCO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to confuse myself with her Last Line: The blue, unedited hand of god! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love FRIENDSHIP IN ABSENCE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chance or cruel business parts us two Last Line: It sits and sings, and so orecomes its rage. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation FROM A HOUSE IN NEW ENGLAND (TO A FRIEND IN THE WEST), by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: There is a window in this magic house Last Line: Running away -- knowing us one too few! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Magic; New England; Separation; Isolation FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not your mountain Subject(s): Absence; Bears; Separation; Isolation FROM THE DOORSILL OF A DREAM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And the soft quivering of her companion hand Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Love FROM US SHE WANDERED NOW A YEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We took the mystery Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Absence FRUIT, by GRACE STONE COATES Poem Text First Line: She pared her fruit with a silver knife Last Line: That both of us were dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love Affairs; Separation; Isolation GAUCHE MARE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: O hear!' %but what may I hear, dear lost, if you are mute to me? I knew Last Line: Station agents, we are looking for a lost item Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Writing And Writers GEMINI, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the world of our room Last Line: And beginning, intact Subject(s): Absence GENRE: INTERIOR, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Some day I shall hope to come again and find / you Last Line: Light at the chatter of your youngest boy. Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GEO-BESTIARY: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cabeza prieta from a hillock I saw no human sign for a thousand Last Line: Car, a glittering metallic tumor. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation GHAZAL OF THE DARK DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: I want to sleep the sleep of the apples Last Line: Who longed to cut his heart open far out at sea Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children GHAZALS: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will I do with seven billion cubic feet of clouds Last Line: House and car and parents. I'm going to greenland at dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Moving & Movers; Relationships; Separation; Isolation GHAZALS: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't walk across that bridge in hannibal Last Line: Street falling softly on our heads, the dread dope again. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Travel; Violence; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips GHOST CONTINENT, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's a lot like emptiness, the season Last Line: The wrong land will be discovered Subject(s): Absence GIVERS AND TAKERS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Father from afar Last Line: Final shimmer, final bite Subject(s): Absence GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane Last Line: There's gladness in my domain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GODLESS WOMAN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! You were behind the glass Last Line: And to the vile jew she sells bread! Subject(s): Absence; Funerals GOING HOME TO VISIT CENSOR WANG ON MY DAY OFF AND NOT FINDING HIM HOME, by WEI YING-WU Poem Source First Line: Nine days of hustle and bustle Last Line: And snow was filling the hills Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE, by CLAIRE BRAZ-VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: I don't care Last Line: I don't care %really I don't Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women GOLDEN LAND OF DREAMS, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm lonely, dear, and weary Last Line: At the tryst of parted sweethearts in the golden land of dreams. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation GONE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: When I am gone your pillows will smell like me Last Line: You will swear your apartment is haunted Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Moving And Movers GONE, by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: The fall you went away - Last Line: I know you'll not return. Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Separation; Isolation GONE, by MARY WALLACE KIRK Poem Text First Line: You are much more vivid Last Line: Oh, there's empty space! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The GONE, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: One little word pregnant with sorrow Last Line: "o I am desolate, desolate, desolate." Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Desolation; Separation; Isolation GONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody loved chick lorimer in our town Last Line: Nobody knows where she's gone. Subject(s): Absence; Women; Separation; Isolation GONE AGAIN, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: I used to believe scarlett would forever be Last Line: Hollywood hack, to keep blowing away Subject(s): Absence GOOD FRIENDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I brought two friends to share my fire Last Line: The other was 'old wine'. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation GOOD MORNING BLUES, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fancied by your leech who owns Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation GOOD-BYE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Farewell!' is often heard Last Line: "yield what the heart must understand, / a long, a last good-be" Subject(s): Absence; Separation;isolation GOOD-BYE, by MEG TYLER Poem Source First Line: What made me feel most powerless Last Line: That turned in my stomach, the bile Subject(s): Absence GOOD-BYE, OLD YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Good-bye, old year! For you and we must part Last Line: Our prayers to him above. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Holidays; Love; New Year; Prayer; Separation; Isolation; Paradise GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Last Line: And you might as well get used to it, your ord's Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii GOODBYE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And I will never step again on land Last Line: All duero waters reach seas of the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence GOODBYE SONG, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: Alas, I have one thing to tell my father's igede people Last Line: Saying a goodbye word is nothing like your absence itself %goodbye, I am going! Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Igede (african People) GRADUALLY, IT OCCURS TO US, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time is memory. We have the time Subject(s): Time; Love; Absence GRASS, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Oriented in new tropics, away from bong Last Line: Minatory mornings none where I've gone Subject(s): Absence; Expressionism - Poets; Horseback Riding; Travel GRASS AND THE SIN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting for it, waiting all their lives Last Line: Came, who would know how bad the land had been Subject(s): Absence GUARD THY HEART!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Guard thy heart! As tho' thy ladye Last Line: Cheerly up the starry sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Old Age; Passion; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology GUNWALES OF ICE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The GUNWALES OF ICE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Last Line: And I'll be the one who's gone Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships And Shipping HAIKU, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nothing big Last Line: Lotion on my back Subject(s): Love – Absence Of HALO FORMATION, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wind is omen Last Line: Her brow in a bleed of light Subject(s): Absence HANDS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: For an instant he was consumed by his obsession for the sea Last Line: And he kept on walking Subject(s): Absence; Fantasy HARNESS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What if the sun sent wind to kill things Last Line: Bareback on your loose assassin Subject(s): Absence HATCH NO. 2, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't see a thing for the snow Last Line: It won't feel a thing Subject(s): Absence HE WOULD NOT STAY FOR ME; AND WHO CAN WONDER?, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And went with half my life about my ways Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Absence; Love HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 12, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise up, brother, be born with me Last Line: Speak through my words and my blood Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Death; Grief HER CALLED HER IN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He called her in from me and shut Last Line: "god called her in from him and shut the door!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Love; Nature; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation HER EVERY NO, by DAVID PETRUZELLI Poem Source First Line: Maybe it's easier to buy new clothes Last Line: That he brushed one cheek as if checking for dust Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT MUSICUS (UNFINISHED SYMPHONY), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Just kissing-high, full-fleshed, yet not Last Line: "'twas you I loved, still love ... You spoiled me for the rest!" Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Passion; Separation; Isolation HERMITS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The more I see of people, the more I like my dog Last Line: Hermits never know they’re dead till the roof falls in Subject(s): Absence; Hermits; Misanthropy; Separation; Isolation HIDE, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Hide from sleep connecting you to teeth Last Line: You are surrounded by roses Subject(s): Absence HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the princess of life gone out Last Line: We got both harbors Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 30, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay me, when I alone sit and bemoan me Last Line: Griev'd at thy sight, and at thy absence griev'd. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation HIPPOCAMPUS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bell is gonged, %the body of a girl %curled up inside it Last Line: And beautiful gargle, %the lovemaking sound %of a deep-sea diver? Subject(s): Absence HIS LADY'S HAND, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goodly hand Last Line: And rid it out of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 43 Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery HIS MISTRIS TO HIM AT HIS FARWELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may vow ile not forgett Last Line: My lipps shall send a 1000 back to you. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation HIS ROOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home again, my dear old room Last Line: Their sweethearts' and talk love to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Memory; Rooms; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares HIS SAILING FROM JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When that day comes, whose evening sayes I'm gone Last Line: In thy remembrance (julia.) so farewell. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation HISTORY LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Our bedroom becomes his new room. And it becomes him, this boy Last Line: Cause and effect medication. Can the pharmacist help us with the %dosage? Are there any contraindica Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Child Psychology; Children; Experience; Orphans; Psychoanalysis HOLY GHOST, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All my thoughts of you are good ones. Last Line: My lids are down. Your face is a secret. %hiss, hiss. Subject(s): Absence HOME, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back again in glenties and the autumn wind / is blowing Last Line: By the grave that holds my colleen in a glen of donegal. Subject(s): Absence; Donegal, Ireland; Graves; Home; Love; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Tombs; Tombstones HOMESICK, by DAVID GRAY (1836-1888) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, o my mother! Come to me Last Line: Thy beauty constant to the constant change? Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation HOMOGENY, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are light and milk and worship Last Line: Clearing the moon like a ruminant martyr Subject(s): Absence HONG KONG CHOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong kong chow is dead, his loving heart hath ceased / to beat Last Line: In loved paownyc he doth sleep, at rest forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Death; Dogs; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The HOOKED, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: A trout sometimes leaps up %right out of the water Last Line: But so many times, %so many times, lets me go Subject(s): Absence; Death HOPE DEFERRED, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis long since we were forced to part, at least it seems so to my grief Last Line: How long you're coming -- I am dying -- will you not come soon? Subject(s): Absence; Hope; Separation; Isolation; Optimism HOPE SAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is swallowed by the earth Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Hope HOUSE ON THE ISLAND, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So many thoughts are sowed Last Line: I fold myself in a poem and wait Subject(s): Absence; Love; Poetry And Poets; Solitude HOUSE WITH THE AQUA-COLORED BARS, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: Walking up the steep-cobbled hill today Last Line: Fat-pink blossoms against my windows Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women HOUSES OFF FRANCIS STREET, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: I have been four years away %from an irish autumn Last Line: And the quiet smoke begins %to hide them from the stars Subject(s): Absence; Forgetfulness; Ireland HOW MANY TIMES DO I TALK WITH MY DEAD?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A shore to be crossed Subject(s): Absence; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence HOW MANY YEARS HAVE ROLLED BY, by SIN HUIMUN Poem Source Last Line: My beloved, do not blame these grey hairs %but this life made for separation Subject(s): Absence HOW MUCH, by DONALD FINKEL Poem Source First Line: That nothing (and only nothing) is truly inanimate Last Line: I've watched the dead leaves dance on november wind Subject(s): Absence HUSBAND AND WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh kiss me once before I go Last Line: "I would have kissed him now." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HYMN TO THE NIGHT WIND, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unbridled spirit, throned upon the lap Last Line: In terror, not in love, we sing of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting I CANNOT, by SARA DE IBANEZ Poem Source First Line: I cannot close my doors Last Line: To see death passing by Subject(s): Absence; Death I CHOSE THIS BRANCH, by HONGJANG Poem Source First Line: I chose this branch of mountain willow Last Line: In tht new leaf me Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Shadows I DANCE WITH MY CAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dance with my cat in the kitchen Last Line: Snuggled into my breast Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude I HAVE A WILL, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: I have a will like a blue mountain Last Line: His green cries resound as he goes Subject(s): Absence; Love I MUST COME BACK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dread the break when I shall die Last Line: I must come back! I must come back! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Absence; Death, Return From; Separation; Isolation I MUSTN'T ASK ABOUT HIM, by MAO WEN-HSI Poem Source Last Line: How long since I've had news from the border! Subject(s): Absence I NEED YOUR BODY NEAR ME, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ocean is nothing, there is no separation Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation I REMEMBER THAT YEAR, UNDER THE BLOSSOMS, by WEI CHUANG Poem Source Last Line: The two of us live now in different lands, %with no way at all to meet! Subject(s): Absence I SEE THEE BETTER IN THE DARK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At the meridian? Subject(s): Absence; Love I SEEK A FORM, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I seek a form that my style cannot discover Last Line: And the neck of the great white swan, that questions me Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses I SENT MY TRUE LOVE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sent my true love on his way Last Line: Through long and empty years. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness I WANT YOU, by ELIZA W. DURBIN Poem Text First Line: The days are long and lonely Last Line: Since you have gone away. Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Separation; Isolation I WILL SING A JOYOUS SONG, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The wind is blowing, blowing all between. Subject(s): Songs; Absence I WISH I WERE CLOSE, by YAMABE NO AKAHITO Poem Source Last Line: I think of you always Subject(s): Absence I WON, YOU LOST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last of day gathers Subject(s): Old Age; Absence; Separation; Isolation I'M GOOD FOR YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A sun by day, a night-time sun Last Line: You are my flower and I'm your bee Subject(s): Absence IDEOGRAM, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The worm will turn Last Line: The awful ones last the least long Subject(s): Absence IDIOMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Like a perpetual, sweet-smelling surf Last Line: Regards herself with the face %of water in her words Subject(s): Absence; Language; Silence IF A GYPSY LAD SHOULD CALL, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, there are days when I would go Last Line: Because you did not call! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation IF ONCE, JUST ONCE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I never see you in my dreams? Last Line: If once, just once, you would come back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IF THE DEAD IN THEIR STATE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If the dead in their state could only see Last Line: And missed by family and friends Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Friendship IF YOU HAD GONE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so I almost lost you? Oh, my dear Last Line: Because I had not dared to tell you so. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IF YOU KNEW MY MIND, SWEET HANDSOME FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And it grieves me that we've been so long apart Subject(s): Absence; Troubadours IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That will not state—its sting Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Autumn IF YOU WERE HERE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: These flowers would lose their wistfulness Last Line: If you were here! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery IF YOU WERE HERE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you were here, or I were there Last Line: If you were here. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IGNIS FATUUS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't cope in the bog light Last Line: Part of the sky is all of the sky. %the rest is wasted Subject(s): Absence IN A RAILROAD STATION, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood in the shrill electric light Last Line: My tears were hidden in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IN ABSENCE, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I miss you this time every year Last Line: And miss you most of all Subject(s): Absence IN ABSENCE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON NES Poem Text First Line: I know a willow-wreathed pool where shy Last Line: With you where love spans intervening space. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness IN ABSENCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that thou art not, makes not up the sum Last Line: All vision, in thine absence, vacancy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IN DREAMS HE SAW HIMSELF, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His own heart as his pillow Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love IN HER PRECINCTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her house looked cold from the foggy lea Last Line: The gloom of severance mine alone. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IN MEMORIAM, JOHN BURROUGHS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His little friends, the birds, will miss him sore Last Line: Some meadow-lark seek out the comrade's face? Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The IN MEMORY, by PEARL C. TRIMBLE Poem Text First Line: My work is finished that Last Line: For her presence here. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IN MEMORY OF ABEL MARTIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While the fiery fish draws its arc Last Line: And has carved our reason out of faith Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence IN THE CAPITAL ON DOUBLE NINTH FESTIVAL, THINKING OF MY ABSENT HUSBAND, by ZOU SAIZHEN Poem Source First Line: Ten years of pure bitterness, my bedfellow a cheap green blanket Last Line: Who will come from afar bearing ease and joy to my rude bamboo fence Subject(s): Absence IN THE DARK, by LAJOS KASSAK Poem Source First Line: I've swallowed the poison of sadness Last Line: And I can't speak your name %any more Subject(s): Absence; Bones; Death IN THE STILLNESS OF THE NIGHT, by MARGARET F. PIRIGYI Poem Source First Line: In the stillness of the night on wings of thought Last Line: You are so close and near Subject(s): Absence IN THE TRUEST SENSE OF THE WORD, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: We cannot speak without intermediaries Last Line: There's only one sense to what I'm saying, %but beware, %I, too, live off the traps Subject(s): Absence; Silence IN YOUR ABSENCE, by ELIZABETH BAXTER Poem Text First Line: It may be when the sunlight strikes the sill Last Line: Are many as the things I hear and see. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation INCIDENTAL GIVEN, by MARIE DUNFORD Poem Source First Line: As blue is made by light Last Line: Behind a curtain of falling leaves Subject(s): Absence INDIFFERENCE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird, a wild-flower and a tree Last Line: I cherish them; they suffer me! Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INFLECTIONS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The aging matriarch lost, in a stroke, her verbs, Last Line: Listening to the warbler, I thought of the pilot who breaks %through fog to find himself over the ru Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital INTO THE DARK, by EDVARD KOCBEK Poem Source First Line: And when I stretch my hands into the darkness Last Line: And that I can never %again neglect you Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of IO REMEMBERS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound at all on this wild upland Last Line: Half - girl, half - cow, the cloud half off Subject(s): Absence IRON, WE WERE TOLD, by CHINOK Poem Source First Line: Iron, we were told; iron had arrived again Last Line: Of such breath you will not withstand the fire Subject(s): Absence ISLA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isla, isla, heart of my heart, it is you alone I am loving Last Line: And I to my kingdom come, my king, my mouth to thy mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Death; Desire; Kisses; Love; Reunions; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The ISOLATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: Though time and distance play their parts Last Line: Deride the miles that stretch between. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ISOLATION WARD, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: I'd brought him hothnouse orchids Last Line: In its place in glory Subject(s): Absence ISOLATIONIST, by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the many move, the man Last Line: While he sits with gloved hands in a buttoned confusion. Alternate Author Name(s): Page, P. K. Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness ISOLATO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The ox is slow but the earth is patient Last Line: Bleeds into an almost touching song Subject(s): Absence IT WAS A BRIGHT AFTERNOON, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Struck the silence of the late dying day' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Poetry And Poets JACARANDAS, SPREADING THEIR SCENT, CHARMING US ..., by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Seashore. A concave and painful absence locked within my painful dreams Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A father lost in the clouds Last Line: To their faraway songs with an axe Subject(s): Absence JAN-77, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You had 'never been absent.' the nation hissed Last Line: Tingled to cup your breast but shut %as cold as the plains Subject(s): Absence JANIE THOMAS, by JILL SPARGUR Poem Text First Line: Janie thomas always shared Last Line: And show us her harp and her wings. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Kindness; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise JAPANESE WOMAN BESIDE THE WATER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: As rain is bending the urgent pine needles Last Line: And later we live for the sky in her arms Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a' the airts the wind can blaw Last Line: But minds me of my jean. Variant Title(s): I Love My Jean Subject(s): Absence; Armour, Jean (1764-1834); Love - Marital; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Burns, Jean Armour (1764-1834); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JEANIE MORRISON, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've wandered east, I've wandered west Last Line: O' bygane days and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation JENNY JUNE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a foundling in slumber, the summer-day lay Last Line: Bears the willow-tree's shadow forever. Variant Title(s): The Beautiful River Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation JOE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My darling's silent pet Last Line: She never envies him. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise JOHN-JOHN, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night of you, john-john Last Line: And that's my prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JOURNEYMAN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Once you looked like clark gable, big ears Last Line: Mare nostrum, mare incognita Subject(s): Absence JOY OF MY LIFE! WHILE LEFT ME HERE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will guide him in Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence JUST WAIT FOR ME, by KONSTANTIN MIKHAILOVICH SIMONOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just wait for men and I'll return Last Line: Simply because, better than all %the others, you knew how to wait Subject(s): Absence KATHERINE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I am thinking of thee Last Line: Feel no more your fond embrace. Subject(s): Absence; Life; Love; Separation; Isolation KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN, by JULIA CRAWFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kathleen mavourneen! The gray dawn is breaking Last Line: Then why art thou silent, kathleen mavourneen? Alternate Author Name(s): Macartney, Louise; Crawford, Louisa Matilda Jane Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation KERCHIEFS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The kerchiefs that they tie, that are untied, madly whistle, kiss and moan Last Line: Close to mine, as if we were two joining fountainheads Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina KEY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And still the planets go by Last Line: In the slow, blossoming traffic %and wallow of seamless oceans Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude KING OF ARAGON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day the king of arragon, from the old citadel Last Line: (alas! Thou woeful city!) for whom I would have died Subject(s): Absence; Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Courts And Courtiers; Memory; Naples, Italy KNIFE THAT IS ALL BLADE, SELS., by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: Like a bullet Last Line: Is felt on knives Subject(s): Absence; Death; Knives KOAN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cross a broken field Last Line: And black - and - blue inside Subject(s): Absence KRELL, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He arrives and looks around Last Line: That betrays them with disease Subject(s): Absence L'OISEAU BLEU, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: Did they make love that night Last Line: Our unbearable urges at all Subject(s): Absence; Love; Roads; Travel LA FELINE, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have come back to me through the / ages Last Line: And forswear hope of god for your sake! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations LABYRINTH OF NARROW STREETS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Roses of your bushes...I want to see her Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Spring LAMENT, by DAVID WILSHIRE Poem Text First Line: The rain falls softly on my window panes Last Line: I would rather now be ... Dead! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LAMENT OF A FAR EASTERN LOVER, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: A powder blue of velvet is the sky Last Line: Searching infinity for jasma's face. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LAMENT OF THE BRONZE CAMELS, by LI HE Poem Source First Line: Hopeless by third month's end Last Line: Burnished eyes reflect only dusk %mixed with tears Subject(s): Absence; Camels LARABELLE; CANTO THIRD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blow that lays the soldier on the plain Last Line: No trace is found of worthy johny green. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LARGE BEAK FINCHES, by IMNIWOL Poem Source First Line: The large beak finches have flown away Last Line: Will not have left any traces Subject(s): Absence; Exiles LAST JOURNEY, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: He has gone Last Line: For the departing, and the journey's why Subject(s): Absence; Death LAST NIGHT IN A DREAM I RETURNED TO MY OLD HOME, by HAN-SHAN Poem Source Last Line: So many years we've been parted %the hair at my temples has lost its old color Subject(s): Absence LATE EVENING LIGHT 7, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Another beginning: it doesn't make any sense. I'd rather not even try again Last Line: Autumn wind in the chimes clinking on the balcony. Only you can hear it Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Photography And Photographers LATE ONE NIGHT, by KANG GANGWOL Poem Source First Line: Late one night, alone, unsleeping Last Line: Made me feel dimmer, farther away Subject(s): Absence; Solitude LAY OF THE CID: THE FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now the prayer is over and the mass in its due course Last Line: The god who gave us spirits shall give us aid also Subject(s): Absence; Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Grief; Travel LAY OF THE DESERTED INFLUENZAED, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: Doe, doe! Last Line: By beautiful! By owd!! Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation LEANING INTO THE AFTERNOONS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets Last Line: Shedding blue tassels over the land Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of LEAVING, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the breath in the trees is so like speech Last Line: Under its tongue, the trees keep absent Subject(s): Absence LEAVING BUDAPEST, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: The dove above the danube Last Line: The length of his country's history Subject(s): Absence; Budapest, Hungary; Farewell LEAVING THE ECCENTRIC, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The queenfish visits the spring Last Line: Your back into your front %and mount the beast again? Subject(s): Absence LEAVING THE MOTEL, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside, the last kids holler Last Line: We would no doubt have other rooms then, %or other names Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Absence; Erotic Love; Hotels LEAVINGS, by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: I want what is left Last Line: And we will have rain, %and begin again Subject(s): Absence; Corpses; Death; Skeletons LEGACIES, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: I don't know if the old people will return one day Last Line: Never have remorse, as we have Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Old Age LENTEN STANZAS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And how should I wait? Should I list Last Line: More earnestly for the strength to wait here in the dark Subject(s): Absence; Prayer LETTER, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Friends %don't look for me Last Line: The diseased me, %in the heavy snow Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Letters; Writing And Writers LETTER FROM A BROTHER, by ANNE CORAY Poem Source First Line: It is the tailspin of autumn Last Line: Write, if you get a chance. %love, paul Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Writing And Writers LETTER FROM THE OLD SOD, by DENNIS MICHAEL MALONEY Poem Source First Line: My dear brother: %it is now drawing near xmas Last Line: Wishing ye all a very merry xmas %your fond sister Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Postal Service; Travel; Writing And Writers LETTER TO CAREL FABRITIUS, OCTOBER 1654, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Butcher, baker, silversmith, %cobbler, miller, carpenter, painter Last Line: Maybe we were there together Subject(s): Absence; Art And Artists; Friendship; Paintings And Painters; Schools LETTER TO CARLOS PELLICER, by EUNICE ODIO Poem Source First Line: Most charming sir, most learned young master Last Line: Recieve, master, my endless gifts. I love you profoundly Subject(s): Absence; Letters LETTER TO CORNELIS ANSLO, 1641, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: You are right-the likeness of your wife Last Line: The line and lure that miss them Subject(s): Absence; Letters LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is still, I listen for your voice. Subject(s): War - Home Front; Absence; Longing; Family Life; Letters; Separation; Isolation; Relatives LETTERS (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day brings a ship Last Line: Is the word they wish to hear. Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation LIBIDO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A hand has her hair Last Line: To scream is to sing Subject(s): Absence LIFE AND ME, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only a bystander Last Line: In these lines. Subject(s): Absence; Life; Separation; Isolation LIGHT AND DARKNESS (2), by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though I sit brooding here, with my eyes closed Last Line: To see her body in the light at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation LIGHT-O'-LOVE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now, at last, I must away Last Line: Then silence booming everywhere! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LIGHTHOUSE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house / in north platte, nebraska Last Line: They're not expecting him back / anytime soon Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Houses; Absence; LINES, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay yet awhile and watch the shadows lengthen Last Line: Stay yet awhile. Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Separation; Isolation LINES TO A FRIEND IN AUSTRALIA, by LOUISA A. HORSFIELD Poem Source First Line: We think of thee, when smiling spring Last Line: Shall waft thee to the lovely vale, %where smiles thine english home Subject(s): Absence; Australia LINES WRITTEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER PARTING FROM A LADY, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is gone! The occasion for ever is past! Last Line: On delusion my raptures arose! Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation LINES WRITTEN IN THE BAY OF LERICI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She left me at the silent time Last Line: Destroying life alone, not peace! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LIPPO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we must part, my lippo. Even so Last Line: And cast it down. -- thou art as other men. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LITTLE HOMAGES, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Dear one, I deduce I'm drunk Last Line: Of skeptical music Subject(s): Absence; Solitude LITTLE THINGS, by GERTRUDE GORE Poem Text First Line: I had almost forgotten you were gone Last Line: Like pity we knew watching a petal fall. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness LOAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Not illness but her own intent Last Line: To borrow what she hates. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LOCHABER NO MORE, by ALLAN RAMSAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to lochaber, and farewell, my jean Last Line: And then I'll leave thee and lochaber no more. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LOGIE O' BUCHAN, by GEORGE HALKET Poem Text First Line: O logie o' buchan, o logie the laird Last Line: And ye'll come and see me in spite o' them a'. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LONELINESS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LONG TIME GONE, by EUGENE MCNAMARA Poem Source First Line: The last light falls on mossy Last Line: I've been a long time gone Subject(s): Absence LONGING, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: A crescent moon, the morning star, and sunrise in the sky Last Line: —helen knight gooding, rapid city Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares LONGING FOR THE EMPEROR, by IWA NO HIME Poem Source First Line: My lord has departed Last Line: Can my love fade too Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital; Marriage LOOKING FOR THE RECLUSE AND NOT FINDING HIM HOME, by JIA DAO Poem Source First Line: I asked his servant under the pines Last Line: But the clouds are so deep I know not where.' Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Zen Buddhism LOSING TRACK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long after you have swung back Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LOST LOVE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! When shall I, my glory Last Line: With tears of hope I will refresh my languor! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love LOST WHITE BROTHER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are about / to move away from guys getting messy Last Line: My love. Subject(s): Absence; New Mexico; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness LOTUS SUTRA REVISITED: TWO LETTERS TO KEIDA YUSUKE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: The great dharma wheel Last Line: Only this gratitude endures Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Memory LOVE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You have not died, no Last Line: You are eternal, love %even as is the spring Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory LOVE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, you come no longer to my dead eyes Last Line: And engenders without sensual pleasure! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love LOVE / LAST NIGHT I FORGOT EVERYTHING, by ANA IRIS VARAS Poem Source Last Line: Trying to reach you Subject(s): Absence; Human Rights; Love LOVE IN ABSENCE, by JULIA H. SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I miss thee each lone hour Last Line: Thinking of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Kinney, Julia Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation LOVE LETTER FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE LAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LOVE SONG AFTER ABSENCE, by C. E. SHUFORD Poem Text First Line: The days when you were gone Last Line: Cascade of fountained stars.... Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LOVE'S CALENDAR; TO AN ABSENT WIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O since 'tis decreed by the envious fates Last Line: It may fairly be reckoned a year! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S NEARNESS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee when golden sunbeams glimmer Last Line: If thou wert here! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Relationships; Separation; Isolation LOVE: 2., by AHARON SHABTAI Poem Source First Line: From here on in I know I'll wail Last Line: Between %words and cock! Subject(s): Absence; Love LOVED, by JEAN DREW FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: You were so fair to look upon Last Line: But now I walk alone. Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness LOVERS' INFINITENESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If yet I have not all thy love Last Line: Be one, and one anothers all. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation LOVES, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: That life-sized image I said yes to a long time ago Last Line: I'll convince myself I see in the quaint and %fossil cones of their captive eyes Subject(s): Absence; Love LUGGAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She carries her eyes from country to country Last Line: How it is good we only have two hands Subject(s): Absence; Strangers; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LYNTON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it seem familiar ground Last Line: We never can forget. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MAD WIND, by CATHERINE BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Cold ashes crumble on my hearth tonight Last Line: O god, sometimes I think I shall go mad. Subject(s): Absence; Waiting; Separation; Isolation MADCHEN MIT DEM ROTHEN MUNDCHEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lassie, with the lips sae rosy Last Line: On that wee white hand should fa'. Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking MADRIGAL: LYCORIS, THE NYMPH, HER SAD SONG, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dew of roses, steeping her lovely cheeks Last Line: Still shall haunt thee.' Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (1), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: My love. You'd hate it here: flies and the wind Last Line: As you asked, I'm taking photographs. Love, mairi Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (2), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: My love, greetings from my island. Mine indeed Last Line: You might not even get this letter. Love Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER HUSBAND FROM ST KILDA (4), by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Alec, old dear. I miss you. The weather's changed Last Line: And have added-you shall see!-a group of clergymen! Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Marital; Saint Kilda (scotland) MALADY OF THE BIRD, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If it has flown, then it knows Last Line: A jerusalem heart, exposed Subject(s): Absence MALLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah well-a-day! What will become of me? Last Line: My door stands open; open are my arms Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love MANUMISSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are free! When you are satisfied Last Line: Your love can leave no room for loneliness. Subject(s): Absence; Alienation (social Psychology); Love; Separation; Isolation; Estrangement; Outcasts MARCH SNOW AS MEMORY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We left our footprints on a night like this Subject(s): Snow; Absence; Separation; Isolation MARIE-PRISTINE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: There is about three minutes that I received from you this postal Last Line: Your cheek, and wave most tenderly Subject(s): Absence; Writing And Writers MARY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The house is changed where mary lived Last Line: But dwells with us to-day. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Mortality; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MARY DHU, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, sweet is the rose-bud Last Line: My mary dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness MATURITY, by ELYDIA SHIPMAN Poem Text First Line: I was not ready for your return Last Line: We are one in what we are. Subject(s): Absence; Reunions; Separation; Isolation MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureen—maureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MAUVAISES TERRES, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world could only be a ship Last Line: It's my turn, of the love she had made Subject(s): Absence MAY, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The latest dream: a lofty hotel lobby Last Line: I lean against the coolness of the stone Subject(s): Dreams; Merrill, James (1926-1995); Absence MAY YOU ALWAYS BE THE DARLING OF FORTUNE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March 10th and the snow flees like eloping brides Last Line: Vigilant. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness ME IN PARADISE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Passion; Absence; Separation; Isolation MEAT, JEALOUSY, AND THE SUN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know the look of need in a field Last Line: And down the power of dream %will retravel me Subject(s): Absence MEDIAN STRIP, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even in summer the roadside Last Line: Shedding filigree and teeth Subject(s): Absence MEMORY, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light / of the white night Last Line: Might still. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery MEMORY AND THE PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, he says, I no longer need your slide-door Last Line: And the snow freezing on purpose to what purpose? Subject(s): Absence; Memory MEMORY RAIN PRIDE WIND, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Bring the form to the crazy weaving Subject(s): Absence; Coltrane, John (1926-1967) MENACE OF THE FLOWER, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: Flower of drowsiness, %lull me but love me not Last Line: Your hand in mine, %tremble lest you turn %into a woman one day!) Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Solitude MENACE OF THE SKIES, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's a golden prison. The light on my hair Last Line: And this is the scar of that encounter Subject(s): Absence MENG JIANGNAN: DREAM OF THE SOUTH: THINKING OF SOMEONE, by LIU SHIH Poem Source First Line: He is gone Last Line: How I yearn for his love Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love METEOR, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I chose this. To be this Last Line: Iron in her roar Subject(s): Absence MIDNIGHT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tender elderberries grow in the dark Last Line: In the heavy dust Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory MIDSUMMER FROST (1), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Stabbed by life's jealous eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MIDSUMMER FROST (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A july ghost, aghast at the strange winter Last Line: Unvexed by july's warm eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Soldiers' Writings; Separation; Isolation MINE OWN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I need not token-flowers to tell Last Line: Until we meet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation MIRAGE; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it that, being gone, you fill my days Last Line: It may be vain illusion. I'm content. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MISSING, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: To watch you wave away Last Line: Not one loose button %not one frayed thread Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Thought MISSING NATALIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Most of my friends don't know I was born a twin. She was born sixty-three Last Line: Together. She left without me Subject(s): Absence; Children - Lost; Disappeared Persons; Sisters; Tragedy; Twins MISSING PARTS ONE THROUGH FOUR, by CAROLYN KOO Poem Source First Line: Limited, limiting clarity Last Line: Everything is built on bones and rain, %bones and rain are breathing Subject(s): Absence MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary Last Line: Only this. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MONODY, by OVRO'OM RAISIN Poem Text First Line: She is playing Last Line: I'm the dark ... Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MONOLOGUE AT 3 AM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better that every fiber crack Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MOOR CALLAYNOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I had six moorish nurses, but the seventh was not a moor Last Line: No more,' he cries, 'this moon will rise above the woods of seine!' Variant Title(s): The Moor Calayno Subject(s): Absence; Fights; Knights And Knighthood; Romance; Tyranny And Tyrants MOORED ON THE CH'IN-HUAI RIVER, by TU MU Poem Source First Line: Smoke-mist blankets cold water Last Line: Across the river she still sings % flower of the inner courtyard Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Ignorance MORNING GLORIES, by JEAN-MARIE WELCH Poem Source First Line: The summer she was told Last Line: Like his prayer Subject(s): Absence; Plantation Life; Prayer MOST QUIETLY AT TIMES, by CASAR FLAISCHLEN Poem Text First Line: Most quietly at times and like a dream Last Line: It pales and passes, fading when it came. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation MOSTLY SKY, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: We eat lunch next to massive windows Last Line: A fiddle string, taut enough and waiting Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Saint Kilda (scotland) MOTETS: 4, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, yet I was with you when your father Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The MOTETS: 6, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had lost hope almost Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MOTETS: 7, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black and white ups and downs of the Subject(s): Grief; Absence; Sorrow; Sadness; Separation; Isolation MOTHER, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE Poem Text First Line: With smile just a little bit sweeter Last Line: I'll love you wherever you are. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood MOTHER OF DAYS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rock is the agony Last Line: Not this. Not this body Subject(s): Absence MOTHER WANT, by MARIA MCLEOD Poem Source First Line: I want to be taken back Last Line: I want her long hands, palms up, %where I can read them Subject(s): Absence; Mothers MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Easter is coming, and I without him Last Line: My heart is cruelly grieving for him Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of MY BOAT, CUT, by KUJI Poem Source First Line: My boat, cut from tallest pine Last Line: Back into dark rip tides Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Love - Loss Of; Tides MY FATHER, by VICENTE ALEIXANDRE Poem Source First Line: You are far away, my father, there in your realm of shadows Last Line: Cast down upon immense arms that horribly mimic you Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Hearts; Orphans MY FATHER'S HALLS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's halls, so rich and rare Last Line: And bear me to my father's arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Separation; Isolation MY FATHER, FAR IN SOME HOSPITAL, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I startle him with my late Last Line: I rage gently, %'goodnight' Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Fathers; Love; Old Age; Telephones MY HOUSE, by LOUIS C. ROSENSTEIN Poem Text First Line: I live all alone in a house at the end of the block Last Line: And to help me forget sorrow and help me endure life, just a little bit longer. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MY JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though cruel fate should bid us part Last Line: I still would love my jean. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation MY LAST FAREWELL TO MY HARP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And must we part? Yes, part for ever Last Line: And thou shalt calmly slumber here. Subject(s): Absence; Harps; Musical Instruments; Separation; Isolation; Lyres MY MOTHER'S REQUEST (SUNDAY MORNING, 8 O'CLOCK), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath morn dawns o'er the mountain brow Last Line: May praise thy love, who doest all things well. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation MY NANNIE'S AWA (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in her green mantle blythe nature arrays Last Line: Alane can delight me -- now nanie's awa. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun shines bright on our old kentucky home Last Line: For our old kentucky home far away. Variant Title(s): My Old Kentucky Home, Good-night!;my Old Kentucky Home, Negro Song Subject(s): Absence; African Americans; Homesickness; Kentucky; Separation; Isolation; Negroes; American Blacks MY STUDY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Four walls papered blue Last Line: To complete my study. Subject(s): Absence; Office Work; Separation; Isolation MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room where you lived Last Line: Left - they loved you too Subject(s): Absence MYSTERY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters Subject(s): Absence; Mystery; Separation; Isolation MYSTERY, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters Last Line: But he sees no sun Subject(s): Absence; Mystery NALADIYAR: SCENES OF SEPARATION (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With bodies decked with flowers they once enjoyed Last Line: They so miss their lover's company Subject(s): Absence NALADIYAR: SCENES OF SEPARATION (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As evening fell and workmen downed their tools Last Line: How will this help my lonely tears? Subject(s): Absence NALADIYAR: SCENES OF SEPARATION (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As scholars laid aside their palm-leaf scrolls Last Line: The fragrant sandal from her breast Subject(s): Absence NALADIYAR: SCENES OF SEPARATION (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As sunset glows she wipes each tear away Last Line: Thinks: 'is she counting up my faults?' Subject(s): Absence NEAR, YET FAR, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So near! And yet, I think, as far apart Last Line: That burn my aching eyes, yet mock my grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation NELL BARNES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They lived apart for three long years Last Line: It was for love she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEW CONCEPT IT HAS CERAMIC INSERTS IN THE CYLINDER HEAD, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: And when I have time I learn to decipher the zebra code it says a lot that's for a novel Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Love Letters; Poetry And Poets NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 1890, by CODY WALKER Poem Source First Line: We're selling shaved ice with black kids Last Line: From the lair of the congo eel- %caleb Subject(s): Absence; New Orleans NIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the night, %among the crystalline thresholds of dream Last Line: To the austere language of absence Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Travel NIGHT BEGINS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: A shipwreck behind the doors %dry as scabs Subject(s): Absence NIGHT COUNTRY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Night is the country of sounds Last Line: Crying and raving mad Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Old Age; Prisons And Prisoners NIGHT WE SAY GOODBYE, by LIN FLORINDA COLAVIN Poem Source First Line: We crouch %behind a bulwark Last Line: How to celebrate %what we no longer hold Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Green, green is the grass by the river Last Line: He travels for pleasure, and never comes home now, %a lonely bed can't be kept empty for long Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.) NINETEEN OLD POEMS: 9, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There is a rare tree in my yard Last Line: What value has the thing itself? - %it only recalls how long since he left Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.) NO ELEGANT CATASTROPHE OF THE HEART, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: It can't get worse but it does. She leaves. She never loved you. What is Last Line: Rain erodes the garden beyond explanation Subject(s): Absence; Loss; Love; Relationships NO ONE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: The invisible received more and more names Last Line: Because there is nothing to see Subject(s): Absence; Solitude NO SIGN OF LIFE, by JORGE TEILLIER Poem Source First Line: Why give signs of life? %I could hardly send you a message Last Line: And that our children can dream of being economists or dictators Subject(s): Absence; Love; Shadows NOBODY HERE, by BRIGITTE OLESCHINSKI Poem Source First Line: Touches you. It is only your breath which Last Line: Like a scouring cloth. Nobody here %touches you Subject(s): Absence NOBODY'S LOOKIN' BUT DE OWL AND DE MOON (A NEGRO SERENADE), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: De river is a-glistenin' in de moonlight Last Line: An' cose you know we kin trus' de moon. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness NOCTURNE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: I take my place in the insomniac's village Last Line: 7 a.M., the blue gums edge-lit, %almost honed, almost revealing Subject(s): Absence; Jerusalem; Postage Stamps; Travel; Villages NOT SLEEPING THERE, by J. W. MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: The whole world grew lonely at once Last Line: Both halves. %--we are inseparably parted Subject(s): Absence NOT TOO UNIMPORTANT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may matter quite a lot or not a bit Last Line: But—I'd like to have 'em miss me when I go. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation O HADA CIBERNETICA: 8, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Instead of sweet humans Last Line: And the southerly blows Subject(s): Absence OCCUPANT OF THE HOUSE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someday the phoebe bird will sing. Last Line: You knew what the sky would mean to me. Subject(s): Absence OCEAN VOICES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The sea-birds sing on the mossy crag Last Line: Are the waters of shim'ring blue. Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Seamen; Sails; Ocean OCHER ROAD, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: I follow you, father Last Line: Where you died wrapped in a burlap sack Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers; Prisons And Prisoners OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 30, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sometimes, in the years since then, I too Last Line: The all-enfolding, deathless love of you! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 33, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great nelumbo heavy on the breast Last Line: Of the dear face that waits me down the west. Subject(s): Absence; Gardens & Gardening; Oxford, England; Separation; Isolation OCTAVIO PAZ ADDRESSES MARIE-JOSE, by ANTHONY SEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Body of the world which I taste Last Line: The one without wings, and the other on fire Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of ODE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Heavenly alchemist! That when calm night Last Line: And frail content doth wander safe abroad. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ODE; TO CHLORIS FROM FRANCE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me, chloris, and the flame Last Line: And I'll forget my loss, and pain. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation OF MOUTH AND EYES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: After he let her go Last Line: And his eyes were pissholes in the snow Subject(s): Absence; Remorse OLD FOLKS AT HOME, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Way down upon de swanee ribber [the swanee river] Last Line: Far from de old folks at home! Variant Title(s): Swanee River Subject(s): Absence; Home; Mothers; Separation; Isolation OLD HOUSE, by DOROTHY W. JANS Poem Text First Line: How dry the grass is now Last Line: Old house, old heart. Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Desertion; Separation; Isolation OLD MOUNTAIN, by HWANG JINI Poem Source First Line: Old mountain, here you are still Last Line: Coming to me, going away Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Love - Loss Of OLD POEM: 16, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the bright moon, oh, how white it shines" Last Line: Falling tears wet my mantle and robe Subject(s): Absence;china - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Separation;isolation OLD POEM: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "green, green, / the grass by the river-bank" Last Line: It is hard alone to keep an empty bed Subject(s): Absence;china - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Separation;isolation ON A PICTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer o'er her native hills Last Line: The summer of her heart. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ON AN AUTUMN DAY, I WAIT FOR ZHONGSHAO'S LETTER FROM THE CAPITAL, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: The chill of the west wind sets in, dyeing my fragrant skirt green Last Line: Pine trees swish in the wind, dew congeals on the paulpwnia, yet behind the evening curtain rises: e Subject(s): Absence ON HAPPY DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When I think on the happy days Last Line: It was na sae glinted by / when I was wi' my dearie Variant Title(s): Absence Subject(s): Absence; Separation;isolation ON THE DAY OF THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX, MISSING MY SON, YONGJI, by CHAI JINGYI Poem Source First Line: A day of festivities - I miss my son Last Line: Don't wait for snowfall, whirling white Subject(s): Absence; Mothers And Sons ON THE DEATH OF ALLEN'S SON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man had seven sons Last Line: And it never again %can be pronounced the same Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers And Sons; Heaven ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon Last Line: The bliss that once was ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ON THE DEPARTURE PLATFORM, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We kissed at the barrier; and passing through Last Line: I cannot tell! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ON THE NOTE YOU DO NOT SEND ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Home is near: not new of you Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence ON THE SANCTISSIMUM: 1. THE REAL PRESENCE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the young church was robbed of her adored Last Line: Murmuring: this my body, this my blood. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ON THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can my poor heart be glad Last Line: My dear lad that's far away. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ONE DAY IT HAPPENS, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: One day it happens: your lover Last Line: Remembering the short barrel of his heart, %its single bullet Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ONE DAY WE SAT DOWN BY THE ROAD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting for her. But she won't skip the date Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love ONE NIGHT, MISSING MY YOUNGER SISTER, by FANG WEIYI Poem Source First Line: Through the fallen leaves of empty forests cries the evening crow Last Line: A gleaming moon of southern skies shines west of the pavilion Subject(s): Absence; Sisters ONE THOUSAND BULLFROGS REJOICE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is dark inside the body, and wet Last Line: And bellow in the ear of second guessing Subject(s): Absence ONLY A KISS, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: The ground I wear is the idea Last Line: I see only %a tiny, ruined iris ... Subject(s): Absence; Love ORCHARD OF FAR WORLDS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the land of small rain Last Line: A sudden recollection lights the wind Subject(s): Absence ORDINARY SONGS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull with pneumonia, wrapped on the porch Last Line: On the shard a reclining naked woman kissed by a god Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Greece; Greeks OTHER LIVES AND DIMENSIONS AND FINALLY A LOVE POEM, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Separation; Isolation OTHER LIVES AND DIMENSIONS AND FINALLY A LOVE POEM, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers Last Line: In each place and forever Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Poetry And Poets OTHER SONGS TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only your face %like white lightning Last Line: In the creating hand of forgetting Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Poetry And Poets OUR LADY EXAMINES HER ANGER, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: Like a foreign object Last Line: The closest she had ever come %to loving herself Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 17, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: It is not life's bright hope or hell's dark terrors Last Line: Only that going I shall leave thee lone. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation OZONE AVENUE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These days I love to dream Last Line: Flicking volcanic ash off a cigarette. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; San Francisco; Separation; Isolation PAIN, by BLAGA DIMITROVA Poem Source First Line: You are leaving Subject(s): Absence PAL OF MY HEART, by JULIA A. BRAND Poem Text First Line: Pal of my heart, need we to part Last Line: In my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Separation; Isolation PALINODE; AUTUMN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still thirteen years: 'tis autumn now Last Line: "floats down, -- ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Absence; Autumn; Seasons; Separation; Isolation; Fall PARABLE OF THE BELOVED, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I asked her to bring something Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation PARADISE LOST: BOOK 4, LINES 639-654, by LESLIE JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: It's all the same to me what time it is Last Line: When you are not around, just leaves me flat. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Milton, John (1608-1674); Separation; Isolation; Paradise PARK AT NIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unwearied / the coo and choke Last Line: Some cellophane. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Parks; Separation; Isolation PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation PART, by PHILLIS LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Of something, separate, not Last Line: I cannot bear to ever Subject(s): Absence PART WAY, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Part way Last Line: Part way and deeper than that %you won't get Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven PARTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wrapped her soul in a lace of lies Last Line: I'll swear that she's no martyr. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation PARTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De breeze is blowin' 'cross de bay Last Line: My lady, my lady. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation PARTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wrapped her soul in a lace of lies Last Line: I'll swear that she's no martyr. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation PARTED, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De breeze is blowin' 'cross de bay Last Line: My lady, my lady. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation PARTED, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleepless I listen to the surge and drone Last Line: For when I find in you my love's release. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation PARTED BY GREAT DISTANCES, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Only then will the stains disappear %of their tears upon bamboo Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mythology - Chinese PARTED!, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie, she's dowie, an' willie, he's wae Last Line: "but the daddie and minnie they pairtit the twae!" Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation PARTIAL DETACHMENT, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I come to him the sunday morning after, fog outside Last Line: His hands rest at his sides. No, he says, that's not it Subject(s): Absence PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life closed twice before its close Last Line: And all we need of hell. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PARTING AT MORNING, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round the cape of a sudden came the sea Last Line: And the need of a world of men for me. Variant Title(s): Parting And Meeting Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; Separation; Isolation; Ocean PARTING IN SADNESS, by MA SHOU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Ailing bones drag on during the long days Last Line: All day long I wait for the returning boat Subject(s): Absence PATHOGEN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is it diabolic %floating through the family Last Line: The way it held them in its pale %and closed Subject(s): Absence PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PAUSE IN OUR DIVORCE, by J. TARWOOD Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow, we start again Last Line: Who played football in no man's land before verdun Subject(s): Absence; Divorce PEARL OF GREAT PRICE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything has its time, even once Last Line: With a finger, who'd been pried Subject(s): Absence PENELOPE JOANNA, by BONNIE JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Once a year joanna's husband leaves her Last Line: Oh where has he gone, his poor wife cried, %my little hibiscus, my delicate boy-- Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Sea PERSONAL LETTER: FOR MY FATHER, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Do not speak to me Last Line: For us. I do not %believe in dying Subject(s): Absence; Dreams PERSONAL LETTER: FOR MY SISTER, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Sister, we have become % a naked dream Last Line: Half opened, frozen %over by your frost Subject(s): Absence; Sisters PETALS RAINED, by KYERANG Poem Source First Line: Petals rained from the pear trees Last Line: And return weary of travel Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Travel PETERKIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peterkin! No wisdom of our life accords Subject(s): Friendship; Absence; Separation; Isolation PETITION (1), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O love! I watch for thee Last Line: If love should pass me by. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation PHONE CALL, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin slipped a quarter in the slot Last Line: Consider mexico. Great hats! I love you. Llamame.' Subject(s): Absence; Love PHONE MESSAGE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In shop for repairs, our hi-fi's gone Last Line: If you're a mind to. Why hold back? Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Absence PICTURES OF GOODBYE, by DOUG LAVERNE Poem Source First Line: Winter twilight is the color of goodbye Last Line: She will not return Subject(s): Absence; Farewell PINING FOR ONE WHO DOES NOT COME, by FUJIWARA NO TEIKA Poem Source Last Line: My whole body smoulders Subject(s): Absence PLATONIC YEAR, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wish to live disappears Last Line: Where breathing either way is useless Subject(s): Absence; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Relationships PLATONIC YEAR, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere along the rim Last Line: In a surgery that lasts Subject(s): Absence PLATONICA, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Dear, dearest, / why do the arms of me yearn? Last Line: Could I be distant and cold? Variant Title(s): Platonics Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The POEM, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: At the edge of the window that limits space Last Line: By the symbol of open arms in every window Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Memory; Poetry And Poets POEM AFTER THE DEATH OF DAD'S GIRLFRIEND, by VITTORIA REPETTO Poem Source First Line: My father and I are alone together Last Line: And alone with each other Subject(s): Absence; Death; Poetry And Poets; Solitude POEM FOR THE FATHER, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: And it was then Last Line: Full of shifting hollows like the words I write Subject(s): Absence; Death; Poetry And Poets POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Last Line: You have used our skulls %for ashtrays Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights POETRY IS A HEAVENLY CRIME, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: I am absent but deep in this absence Last Line: Must keep silence wait in silence Subject(s): Absence; Poetry And Poets PORTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She had the look of a seaport Last Line: That terrible innocence of waiting Subject(s): Absence; Love POST AND BEAM CONSTRUCTION, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: These familiar hills, bare in winter Last Line: In the silent winter nights, %I hardly heard them leave Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women POSTCARD, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Wish I could paint it, this sky out my window Last Line: How far you've come, how quickly you went Subject(s): Absence POSTCARD FROM TORTOLA, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've never been to tortola Last Line: That there's singing in the streets Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Travel POSTCARDS FROM ROTTERDAM, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came such a long way Last Line: Carolyn. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery PRAYER, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: Lord, I call to you Last Line: The last time, he was the one %who called? Subject(s): Absence PRAYER TO MY MOTHER, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: It's so hard to say in a son's words Last Line: I'm here, alone, with you, in a future april Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Prayer PRENUPTIAL, by WILLIAM WENTHE Poem Source First Line: Lying in bed with you, not sleeping -sleep Last Line: Our little life is rounded with a sleep Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of PRESENCE, by MILDRED WHITNEY STILLMAN Poem Text First Line: I thought that I should miss you on this hill Last Line: But, no, I do not miss you. You are here. Subject(s): Absence; Cows; Presence; Separation; Isolation PRESENT IN ABSENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Absence, hear thou my protestation Last Line: There I embrace and kiss her; %and so I both enjoy and miss her Subject(s): Absence PRICE OF RUIN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A rib cage lies Last Line: Their own removal Subject(s): Absence PROCESSIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Beneath her eyes she carries the scars of absence, and her gait Last Line: A concave surface beneath her nebulous steps Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence PROOFS OF ABSENCE, by LISA BARNETT Poem Source First Line: Again you've gone away; again I'm left Last Line: What's absent will return to us unchanged Subject(s): Absence PROWLER'S UNIVERSE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everything is mine for a while Last Line: And the empty sky is perfect Subject(s): Absence PROXIMITY OF THE BELOVED ONE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee, whene'er the sun his beams Last Line: Would thou wert here! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Relationships; Separation; Isolation PUPILS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Light overflowing and melodious Last Line: A wound that makes its nest %amid the sadness Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina QUA CURSUM VENTUS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay Last Line: At last, at last, unite them there! Variant Title(s): Becalmed At Eve Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean QUIET DEATH IN A RED CLOSET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen anniversaries Last Line: Someone had to go Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The QUIET DEATH IN A RED CLOSET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen anniversaries Last Line: In marriage, %someone had to go Subject(s): Absence; Death QUIET EMERGENCY, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sun, come a little closer Last Line: Somewhat medical %zeal Subject(s): Absence RADIOLARIA, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe the earth where her house is Last Line: She's staying flat %to grow elaborate again Subject(s): Absence RAIN ON THE BANANA LEAVES, by ZHU WUXIA Poem Source First Line: It shatters my dream of grief Last Line: Except to vent feelings of separation Subject(s): Absence; Rain REALM OF THE FERN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Only the ether %is gliding above alive somewhere Last Line: For everyone but them to see Subject(s): Absence RECALLING OUR PARTING, by DONG SHAOYU Poem Source First Line: I recall our parting at the willows by the bridge Last Line: Day after day counting when you'll return Subject(s): Absence; Farewell RECOMPENSE, by HAZEL CANNON BRINSON Poem Text First Line: Though we are many miles apart Last Line: And more I cannot say. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness RECOMPENSE, by EDITH CURTIS DE LONG Poem Text First Line: Fate hath decreed our lives be lived apart Last Line: For love like ours, there's glad eternity. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation REMEMBERING THE GARDEN, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Like friends who sat whole evenings and spoke Last Line: Through the separate nights I learned to bear Subject(s): Absence; Gardens And Gardening; Memory REMEMBRANCE, by ELSIE GLENN Poem Text First Line: Why do I bother to think of you on rainy days? Last Line: Now that I have no right? Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking REPROACH IN A LETTER ON COLORED PAPER, by SHANGGUAN WAN'ER Poem Source First Line: When first leaves fall on lake dongting Last Line: This misery in living long apart Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905) REPROACH IN THE WOMEN'S CHAMBERS, by WANG CH'ANG-LING Poem Source First Line: The oyung wife in her chambers Last Line: And regretted having sent her husband %to seek glory in the army Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905) REST, by PAULINE CAHN Poem Text First Line: I am so tired-so tired Last Line: The hoof-beats of my thoughts are growing faint. Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking RETREAT, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN Poem Source First Line: The past, which lives on only Last Line: Slowly into the rainy dusk Subject(s): Absence RETROSPECTION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: If when we parted Last Line: Leaving me nothing. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love; Separation; Isolation; Parting RETURN, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Are you awake, there in the river...Are you awake? Last Line: And you must greet me, shining Subject(s): Absence; Love RETURN FOR AN INSTANT, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: What was it like, god of mine, what was it like Last Line: I don't know what you were like, but you were Subject(s): Absence; Memory RHAPSODY OF THOUGHTS ON SEPARATION, by ZUO FEN Poem Source First Line: Born in the humble seclusion of a thatched hut Last Line: As I make my plaint in this poem Subject(s): Absence RHYMES: 52, by GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great waves, crashing on desert shores Last Line: Take, in pity! - I fear to stay %alone with misery Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Poetry And Poets RHYTHM CITY, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Winter salt stains white on the sidewalk Last Line: It is this, he admits, looking down %can't dance Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Cities; New York City; Orphans; Poetry And Poets; Winter ROBIN ADAIR, by CAROLINE KEPPEL Poem Text First Line: What's this dull town to me? Last Line: Robin adair! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ROCKFACE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: I have been here for just an hour Last Line: I know the same pride, %the same fall Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons; Stones ROGER AND DOLLY, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young roger came tapping at dolly's window Last Line: Mumpaty, mumpaty, mump. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting ROMANCE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know we made it up, like god Last Line: Throbs, aches. Nothing there %and still, the pain makes a shape Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ (AND SCARCELY WORTH THE TROUBLE, AT THAT), by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same to me are sombre days and gay. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ROSEEN-DHU, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little wild rose of my heart Last Line: Ròseen-dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Longing; Love; Roses; Separation; Isolation ROUND FACE IN A LITTLE TOWN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Holy one. What does the vine Last Line: Too young to be degraded %and stay put Subject(s): Absence SAILS, by FLORENCE O'BRIEN Poem Text First Line: To fancy sails upon the seas Last Line: And bring my love to me. Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean SALVAGE, by BETH KEMPER GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: From falling barns my grandfather bought boards Last Line: And wondered %if blight blesses us Subject(s): Absence; Drinks And Drinking; Grandparents; Memory SALVAGER, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: I keep your watch Last Line: Who said I knew Subject(s): Absence SAMURAI SONG, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had no roof I made Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SAMURAI SONG, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had no roof I made Last Line: Is my strategy. When I had %no lover I courted my sleep Subject(s): Absence SANCTUARY, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who loves the world? The sleeper does Last Line: Too real once, to dream of real things Subject(s): Absence SANDY STAR: 5. ONUS PROBANDI, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more from out the sunset Last Line: With the secret on his brow. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SANQU LYRIC, TO THE TUNE ZHE GUI LING, by HUANG E Poem Source First Line: I remember when we were together: shared pillow, same coverlet Last Line: So don't bring up again that old line about 'one quarter-hour being worth a thousand pieces of gold' Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Unfaithfulness SEA LYRIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the seas to-night, love Last Line: Bright as the listening stars. Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean SEASIDE SONG: 2, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is down into his bower Last Line: And whisper all her dreams to me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Serenade Subject(s): Sea; Absence; Love; Ocean; Separation; Isolation SEASON FOR FATHERS, by JEFFREY LAMAR COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Days before my thirty-fourth year Last Line: Of newfound absence, %should a good son do? Subject(s): Absence; Fathers And Sons; Heaven; Prayer SECOND THOUGHTS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were here, ah foolish then Last Line: You are no longer here. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Separation; Isolation SECRETS OF LOVE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All he had to do was look down Last Line: Or a cage whose interior flew Subject(s): Absence SEDGE SONGS: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the west the sun departing Last Line: Trembles soft yon evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Absence; Evening; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Sunset; Twilight SEEING A FRIEND OFF, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green hills sloping from the northern wall Last Line: Wave hands and let us take leave now, %hsiao-hsiao our hesitant horses neighing Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Absence SEEING MY HUSBAND OFF TO DALIANG, by ZHU ROUZE Poem Source First Line: Unsuccessful in the past, you regret traveling to the north Last Line: Though it quicken the wanderer's tears falling on the banquet mat Subject(s): Absence SELF, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: So established in its solitude Last Line: There the end is an end by its self Subject(s): Absence; Self SENCE YOU WENT AWAY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seems lak to me de stars don't shine so bright Last Line: Sence you went away. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SENT TO MY FOURTH SON, SHAO-WU, by LIANG TE-SHENG Poem Source First Line: You are far away, blocked by passages and mountains Last Line: Amidst the sound of firecrackers, another year is gone Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Time SENT TO MY HUSBAND, by HUANG E Poem Source First Line: Wild geese have never flown as far as hengyang Last Line: When will the golden cock reach all the way to yeland? Subject(s): Absence SENT TO MY TWO LITTLE CHILDREN IN THE EAST OF LU, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wu land mulberry leaves grow green Last Line: On this piece of cut silk I'll write my far-away thoughts %and send them floating down the river wen Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Absence SENT TO SHENG'AN, by HUANG E Poem Source First Line: The time for watching the harvest moon is scarcely gone Last Line: While our human lives are still, oh, so far apart Subject(s): Absence SEPARATED, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What matters the tramp of the crowd on the highway Last Line: When his step will never more come to the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATING LONG AGO, by HO NANSOLHON Poem Source First Line: When the girl in the western house was fifteen years old Last Line: In life what good does it do to dwell on grieving thoughts? Subject(s): Absence SEPARATION, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop - not to me, at this bitter departing Last Line: With the grey eyes, and the lovely brown hair? Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When intervals of solitude are done Last Line: And leave the house and me deserted quite! Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: No day has met another day Last Line: I wish you well - %good-bye, my dear Subject(s): Absence SEPARATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee whene'er the sun is glowing Last Line: Oh, wert thou here! Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Love; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must we for ever eye through space? And make Last Line: What dead charge do I pull upon my breast? Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Absence SEPARATION, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so we twain must part! Oh linger yet Last Line: Return, my soul, make haste and come again! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I heard your voice, you told Subject(s): Absence; Death SEPARATION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within your pulsing day Last Line: Pray god you never know! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mountain and a wood between us Last Line: And say we must not cross -- alas! Alas! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your absence has gone through me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your absence has gone through me Last Line: Everything I do is stitched with its color Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun Last Line: Just where our lovers die Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs SEPARATION, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ok my child Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To leave what most we love, in loneliness Last Line: Ah, whose the weight of heavier distress? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION LETS ONE GO AWAY, by SIN HUIMUN Poem Source Last Line: My beloved, stop to consider %if you really must go and leave me Subject(s): Absence SEVEN AFTERNOONS: SONG, OCCASIONAL, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: There are no edges any more Last Line: Her face was moonless night Subject(s): Absence; Love SEVEN MARIA: 1. MARE DESIDERII, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turn to the source and feel Last Line: Don't speak, you'll motion to him, %none of us can face it Subject(s): Absence; Moon SEVEN MARIA: 2. MARE IMBRIUM, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The plants have gone to witchcraft Last Line: And the dirt lies quiet at the bottom Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Plants SEVEN MARIA: 3. MARE ORIENTALIS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If the husband cheats, he does it Last Line: And left the only question in the blasted air: more or less, %which is to be master? Subject(s): Absence SEVEN MARIA: 4. MARE NUBIUM, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If the devil caused the flood Last Line: With the mirror image of his horns Subject(s): Absence; Devil SEVEN MARIA: 5. MARE FECUNDITATIS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What began as a delicate crack Last Line: That would graduate to happiness %and absolutely sail Subject(s): Absence SEVEN MARIA: 6. MARE FRIGORIS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Floating between two nights, the heretic Last Line: So perverted by its burden %that it peels itself alive? Subject(s): Absence SEVEN MARIA: 7. MARE INCOGNITO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon makes my son go silent Last Line: He is totally filled with god Subject(s): Absence; Children; Moon; Religion SEVEN SORROWS: 1, by WANG CAN Poem Source First Line: In chang-an the fighting was out of control Last Line: I gasped and felt the pain within Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; War SEVEN STONES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Today I picked up %seven stones Last Line: Of absences, %a mossy sound Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Love SHE IS GONE YET SHE IS STILL WITH ME, by FRIEDA STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Unto-heaven is my prowl Last Line: Without you there is no chapel Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Love SHE WRITES TO THE MAN WHO WRITES OF HER IN HIS POEMS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tried to hide me in darkness Last Line: Itself over and over. And over Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Absence; Longing SHED, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Today we celebrate aunt Last Line: We could never have guessed Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Memory SIDEBOARD, by DEBORAH NARIN-WELLS Poem Source First Line: When we left this time Last Line: Even when we're gone home Subject(s): Absence; Death; Home SIEGE PIECE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If blood were clear, the viol Last Line: Sitting up too straight, %burgundy with noise Subject(s): Absence SILK DRESS, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: In my heavy new silk dress, dark blue Last Line: Flesh, that fluttering small light, its guttering wick Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Loss; Saint Kilda (scotland); Supernatural SILVER TEARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many tributes life hath brought me Last Line: For my wild heart's suffering. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SINCE NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is a simple poem Last Line: I want to enter you with nothing Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Poetry And Poets SINCE WE PARTED, SPRING HALF OVER, by LI YU+(1) Poem Source Last Line: The farther away I journey, the ranker it grows Subject(s): Absence SISTER MADELEINE, by CLARE EVEREST Poem Text First Line: The blessed hush of eventide Last Line: "into the ""silent land." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SLANDER FROM THE INNER NESTS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaps between trees in the dark Last Line: Glowering with water Subject(s): Absence SLUM LORDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Upper Classes; Absence; Neighbors; Separation; Isolation SMALL LIONS, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crux of love, any love Last Line: With their eyes Subject(s): Absence SNOW, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: One behind another the hours Last Line: To where I am alone, in isolation Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Thought; Writing And Writers SNOW-FLAKE, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: To soothe my pain because thou canst not love me Last Line: Whose burning lava-depths beneath it spread! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of SO LONG, ROY, by BARBARA HAMBY Poem Source First Line: Apropos of nothing it seems, I burst into tears on reading Last Line: Zeitung, so the whole world can remember your smile and how great you looked on a horse Subject(s): Absence; Memory SO TO SPEAK AS THEY SAY, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: Not that I'd been thinking about you or antything Last Line: No like imperfect as the case may be strangers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Romance SOLAR WIND, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't pray Last Line: I grow weird in the field Subject(s): Absence SOLOMON'S SONG, by REGINA MIRIAM BLOCH Poem Text First Line: Hast thou heard the voice of my belov'd Last Line: "ah, when is he returning?" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Jews; Love; Separation; Isolation; Judaism SOME SAY GOODNIGHT AT NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say goodnight at night Last Line: Itself, the purple on the height %denominated morn Variant Title(s): Poem: 1739; Poem: 58 Subject(s): Absence SONATA, by ALVARO MUTIS Poem Source First Line: Do you know what was waiting beyond those steps of the Last Line: Orders, insults, and vague promises, in all the languages of %the earth Subject(s): Absence; Poetry And Poets SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis a pity I'm not in england Last Line: Back to my love again! Subject(s): Absence;love; Separation;isolation SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love has gone long since Last Line: And all its angels sleeping Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest love, I do not go Last Line: Alive, ne'er parted be. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: The house is a cote for doves Last Line: The rhythms of the sea resound Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Hearts; Mothers And Sons SONG, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O licht, licht was maid ellen's fit Last Line: Of that foresworne knicht! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love; Absence SONG, by IAN CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy dark eyes to mine, eilidh Last Line: A falling star! Alternate Author Name(s): Mor, Ian Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in my heart: oh, heart of me, heart of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Tis said that absence conquers love Last Line: But thou art not forgot. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SONG (2), by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the clouds that are so light Last Line: Without which it were not Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Absence; Army Life SONG (6), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absent from thee I languish still Last Line: And lose my everlasting rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Return Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy SONG FOR AN OLD FRIEND, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: She is small and lends advice Last Line: Today her voice is being lost %in the signs of a farm dance gone, %in the hope of a morning %and a d Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Old Age SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come at dawn, my loved one Last Line: Bring none from home away Subject(s): Absence; Love; Solitude SONG OF THE TROUBADOUR, by J. R. PERRY Poem Text First Line: Where is her lip's soft laugh to-night? Last Line: My lips with a death-sad song. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your poet %thinks of you. The distance Last Line: For you, guiomar, this nostalgia of mine Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Love; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance SONG/FOR SANNA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hasn't happened / intrudes, so much Last Line: Miss you. Variant Title(s): Song / For Sanna Subject(s): Absence; Food & Eating; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism SONG: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning rise I, crying Last Line: Sadly wander I. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 107, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence, alas / causeth me pass Last Line: In this dolour. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Trust; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm driven hither and thither along! Last Line: Slily deride they the lovers' wild speed. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONG: 69, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence absenting causeth me to complain Last Line: Now welcome, death. I am ready to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Second World War SONG: ON SEEING DEAD BODIES FLOATING OFF THE CAPE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Last Line: The nearness that is waiting in my bed, %the gradual self-effacement of the dead Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii SONGS IN ABSENCE: 10, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you with me, or I with you Last Line: My own and better self in you. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONGS IN ABSENCE: 11, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I with you, or you with me? Last Line: The dwelling of a purer love. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SONGS IN ABSENCE: 12, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I with you, or you with me Last Line: For, she is there, and I am here. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SONGS IN ABSENCE: 13, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you with me, or I with you Last Line: My own and better self in you. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SONGS IN ABSENCE: 6, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some future day when what is now is not Last Line: Meet yet again, upon some future day? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONGS IN ABSENCE: 8, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty ocean rolls and raves Last Line: Could dream I travelled o'er to you. Subject(s): Absence; Sea Voyages; Separation; Isolation SONGS IN ABSENCE: 9. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That out of sight is out of mind Last Line: My own and only love, of you. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SONGS OF THE BIRDS: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What is that mournful song Last Line: You're gone when I awake Subject(s): Absence SONGS TO A.H.R.: 5. IN A DARK HOUR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not with me -- only the moon Last Line: And left one with all life unclear. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONGS TO GUIOMAR, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't know %when you held a yellow lemon Last Line: To you, guiomar, my longing Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Poetry And Poets; Travel SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 16, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, amynta, we must part Last Line: Because thou hadst my love. Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Charm; Cruelty; Love - Loss Of; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 22, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since by ill fate I'm forced away Last Line: Behold your picture in my heart. Subject(s): Absence; Charm; Eyes; Fate; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny SONGS: 6. THE WEARY MOON GOES DOWN INTO THE WEST, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Wilt thou not also rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONNET, by EDITH GRESHAM Poem Text First Line: So, going, he left nothing of his own Last Line: Not knowing all the things he left behind. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET ON SEPARATION, by VINICIUS DE MORAES Poem Source First Line: Suddenly laughter became sobbing Last Line: Suddenly, no more than suddenly Subject(s): Absence SONNET: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Parted by time and space for many a year Last Line: And fluted in those old virginia groves. Subject(s): Absence; Seasons; Youth; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 2. IN ABSENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These rugged, wintry days I scarce could bear Last Line: That comes with steady sun when april dies. Subject(s): Absence; Spring; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 20. A FAREWELL, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I mused, but now at length I find Last Line: From joy I part, still living in annoy. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 21. ABSENCE, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Finding those beams, which I must ever love Last Line: A blinded mole, or else a burned fly. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 57, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Last Line: Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. Variant Title(s): "absence;""being Your Slave, What Should I Do Not Tend""; Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 87, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing Last Line: In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. Subject(s): Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 97, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How like a winter hath my absence been Last Line: That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Winter; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 98, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: From you have I been absent in the spring Last Line: As with your shadow I with these did play: Variant Title(s): The Garden Of Love;absent;no Spring Without The Beloved Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: IN ABSENCE FROM BECCHINA, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI DA SIENA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's so heavy with a hundred things Last Line: Nor any road is mine that leads to rest. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNET: TO L.T. IN FLORENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You by the arno shape your marble dream Last Line: For one poor cowslip or anemone. Subject(s): Absence; Florence, Italy; Homesickness; Separation; Isolation SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: THIS HOUSE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which represents you, as my bones do, waits, Subject(s): Home; Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNETS IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence and presence, born of elder night Last Line: Some thoughts on him whose all thoughts dwelt on thee. Subject(s): Absence; Dramatists; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Separation; Isolation; Bedtime SORROWFUL SHADOW, by JULIO HERRERA Y REISSIG Poem Source First Line: The flocks went bleating; the roads Last Line: The lucid dreaminess of the infinite evening Subject(s): Absence SPACE SONG, by ALFONSO CORTES Poem Source First Line: The distance that lies from here Subject(s): Absence; Solitude SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 104, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lo, there is nothing to see Last Line: Spread its sails and went away Subject(s): Absence; Farewell SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 108, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I envy the birds, that can Last Line: And give my song to the winds Subject(s): Absence; Solitude SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 115, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Grief and that which is not grief Last Line: To-day, your presence grieves me Subject(s): Absence; Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 116, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now my husband lies dead Last Line: Little velvet eyes' Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Sympathy SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 124, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I may look at you no more Last Line: Even a blind man can see Subject(s): Absence SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 24, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I don't want you to go Last Line: Nor take me away Subject(s): Absence SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 92, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farewell. I go without seeing you Last Line: My arms without having held you Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints SPENDING THE NIGHT IN REVEREND YE'S MOUNTAIN CHAMBER, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When evening sun passed over western peaks Last Line: My harp waits alone on the vine-hung path Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests; Nature SPIRITUAL CANTICLE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND CHRIST, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where hidest thou from me Last Line: The cavalry rode by %descending where they saw the waters lie Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Marriage SPLITTING, by RICHARD KROHN Poem Source First Line: After the china %I guess we next split Last Line: Things right %in half Subject(s): Absence SPRING GRIEVANCE, by CHIN CH'ANG-HSU Poem Source First Line: Shoo the orioles, drive them away Last Line: And I will never get to lia-hsi Subject(s): Absence SPRING NIGHT IN LO-YANG - HEARING A FLUTE, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In what house, the jade flute that sends these dark notes drifting Last Line: Tonight if we should hear the willow-breaking song, %who could help but long for the gardens of home Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Absence SPRING THOUGHTS SENT TO ZHOU QIONG, WHOM I MISS, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: In the last days of spring, the scenery has become more forlorn Last Line: Your travel to the ends of the earth with book and sword brings me constant pain of separation Subject(s): Absence SPUTTER AND BLAZE, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe because you never Last Line: Wherever they may be Subject(s): Absence; Love; Poetry And Poets; Silence ST. NEMELE, by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: Who hovers above me now Last Line: Pricks in manifold forms Subject(s): Absence STAG'S LEAP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation STANDING UP STIFF, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: When I told my mom I hated her Last Line: Standing up stiff Subject(s): Absence; Children; Divorce; Long Island (n.y.); Suburbs STANZAS, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou at eventide art roaming Last Line: I think of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips STANZAS - APRIL, 1814, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away! The moor is dark beneath the moon Last Line: From the music of two voices, and the light of one sweet smile. Variant Title(s): Remorse Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation STANZAS TO HELEN M-- M--, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Believe not that absence can banish Last Line: And tenderly whisper of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation STAR LILIES, by CHERYL LATIF Poem Source First Line: Soil still between your fingers, you lead me through the garden. It is early Last Line: Upstairs, the star lilies. Their fragrant flesh becoming translucent. Soon %petals will fall, one by Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Lilies STARS, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA Poem Source First Line: Stars that in the shadowy darkness Last Line: Wherefore shine, if ye be dead? Subject(s): Absence; Night; Silence; Stars START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Last Line: Making their mark against green gape-water, then gone Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland; Separation; Isolation START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Last Line: Making their mark an instant against green gape-water, then gone Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland STILL LIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your letter arrived I left the oven on Last Line: All in shadow that I must bathe and dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation STINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness STITCHES, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: What can I say? I've even forgotten how Last Line: Inscrutable as the ocean, my mother's face? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Variant Title(s): An Unfinished Figur Subject(s): Absence; Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory; Past STOP, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: Stop blowing yourself, wind Last Line: Let me long, let me listen Subject(s): Absence; Love STOP TO THINK, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Stop to think-the earth Last Line: The earth has not been %till then Subject(s): Absence; Earth; Future Life; Planets; Universe STRAIN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is late Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation STREAMSIDE EXCHANGE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Child: river bird, river bird Last Line: And so has your mother Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Mothers STREET IN SHADOW, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It cannot be. Walk on. In the blue a star Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude SUBTRACTION, by THOMAS ROSENLOCHER Poem Source First Line: Take away the hours that keep tabs on themselves Last Line: From the few seconds that count Subject(s): Absence SUDDEN RAIN IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by STEPHEN BURT Poem Source First Line: Plush hills, the raw materials, fall away Last Line: I'm not with you. I will be with you soon Subject(s): Absence; Mountains; Rain SUDDENLY. IN DECEMBER, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly. In december. I stand knee-deep in snow Last Line: Dearest, you who are sleeping. Eurydice. %--under the snow. Under the wreath of cedar Subject(s): Absence; Death; December; Love - Loss Of; Nostalgia; Winter SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the men leave me Last Line: I walk back across the mown lawn loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart em Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Country Life SUN PORCH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Again she had not come. Helen had not come. Goldin sat on the Last Line: Sound of a fan turning the air on itself, again and again Subject(s): Absence; Solitude SUNDAY DINNER, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always my grandparents arrived Last Line: Prick it and prick it and prick it Subject(s): Absence; Dinners And Dining; Mothers; Poetry And Poets SWEET SOUTH, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the sweet south! The sunny, sunny south! Last Line: Will die -- do aught but fly! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Heaven; Love SWORDFISH SEASON, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer suffers most without a daughter Last Line: Great control, do, killing instantly Subject(s): Absence SYMBOL, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: I will look to the hills from which cometh my strength' Last Line: More worthy descendants of those who have gone. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TA SUO XING, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: Dream broken, hope abandoned Last Line: Orion slides, the moon falls, the darkness goes on forever Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Dreams; Grief TAKINGS, by THOMAS HOOD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He took her fancy when he came Last Line: And after that he took his leave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hood, Tom, The Younger Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Separation; Isolation TANKA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men who watch in the Last Line: She without friend or lover Subject(s): Love – Absence Of TAUT FORM / SLENDER / TAUT AND SLENDER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Iris good thunder oh put on your fatigues Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Flowers; Love; Roses TEA AND A DREAM, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One eye open, on its little island Last Line: "the black box, emptied of its cargo, light, Subject(s): Dreams; Merrill, James (1926-1995); Absence; Nightmares TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart is so full if pain Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness TEN THOUSAND MILES WITHOUT ONE, by HSUEH-FENG YI TS'UN Poem Source Last Line: Of shaving your head and %leaving home? Subject(s): Absence; Zen Buddhism TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 1. A DOG SEPARATED FROM ITS MASTER, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Behind crimson gates for four or five years Last Line: Upon the red silk rug Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dogs TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 10. A MIRROR SEPARATED FROM ITS STAND, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: The molten gold was poured Last Line: Within the splendid hall Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mirrors TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 2. A BRUSH SEPARATED FROM THE HAND, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Reed of yue and xuancheng bristles Last Line: In the hand of wang xizhi Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905) TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 3. A HORSE SEPARATED FROM THE STABLE, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Ears like snow, a russet coat Last Line: Drawing the splendid coach Subject(s): Absence; Animals; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Horses TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 4. A PARROT SEPARATED FROM ITS CAGE, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: It goes alone through longxi Last Line: Calling from its cage Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Parrots TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 5. A SWALLOW SEPARATED FROM THE NEST, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: In and out through crimson gates Last Line: Up among the rafters Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Swallows TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 6. A PEARL SEPARATED FROM THE PALM, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Glistening thing, bright and round Last Line: In the owner's palm Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Pearls TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 7. A FISH SEPARATED FROM ITS POOL, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: In the lotus pond for four or five years Last Line: Through the clear waves Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Fishing And Fishermen TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 8. A HAWK SEPARATED FROM THE GAUNTLET, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Talons sharp as blade-point Last Line: Upon the ruler's arm Subject(s): Absence; Birds; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Hawks TEN VERSIONS OF SEPARATION: 9. BAMBOO SEPARATED FROM A PAVILION, by XUE TAO Poem Source First Line: Exuberant growth, newly planted Last Line: Over the jadelike hall Subject(s): Absence; Bamboo; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905) TESTAMENT, by MARCUS CAFAGNA Poem Source First Line: I brok it off afraid of him, the farmhouse Last Line: And in this way kept her alive for me Subject(s): Absence THAT DISTANCE WAS BETWEEN US, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Equator never can Variant Title(s): Poem: 863; Poem: 90 Subject(s): Absence THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sence little wesley went, the place Last Line: With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence little wesley's dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Clocks; Death; Moon; Prayer; Time; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE ABSENT BOY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They miss him in the orchard, where the fruit is sunning over Last Line: For somewhere in the thick of strife they know their boy is there Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Separation; Isolation THE ACTOR-SOLDIER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the grass I'm lying Last Line: "o masquerader, come!" Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE ANSWER, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering the way of sleep, the timeless shore Last Line: And then the eternal silence makes reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE AWAKENING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I was a rose Last Line: That I had waited there for you. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Passion; Waiting; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares THE BLESSED DAMOZEL, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blessed damozel leaned out / from the gold bar of heaven Last Line: And wept. (I heard her tears.) Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Separation; Isolation; Paradise THE BLIND GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might see his face to-day! Last Line: Of blindness -- both for him and her. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Faces; Love; Separation; Isolation; Visually Handicapped THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim stars like snowflakes are fluttering in heaven Last Line: But I know isolation. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE BLUE WAKE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the blood-red sun sank in the western sky Last Line: To furnish her a home. Subject(s): Absence; Blue (color); Sea; Wakes; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE BONNIE LAD THAT'S FAR AWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how can I be blythe and glad Last Line: And he'll be hame that's far awa. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE BRAES O' GLENIFFER, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes o' gleniffer Last Line: The dark days o' winter were summer to me! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE BROKEN TRYST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dropping words of larks, the sweetest tongue Last Line: And shall the world now end and the heavens fall? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE CALENDAR, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text First Line: In those delicious days we spent together Last Line: It clings a month to every daily page. Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation THE CARRIERS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father was a carrier Last Line: Little brothers, I miss you. so. heavy-laden Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE COMING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The mansion of my heart, my love Last Line: The happy, happy years! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE CONFESSIONAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of thee - I thought of thee Last Line: Oh, dearest! Hast thou thought of me? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DARK OF THE MOON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Diana's crescent ship, / by silver chain and lock Last Line: While hermes has his tryst. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE DAY-DREAM; FROM AN EMIGRANT TO HIS ABSENT WIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light Last Line: I blessed him, tried to laugh, and fell a-weeping! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DEFINITION OF LOVE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: And opposition of the stars. Subject(s): Absence; Fate; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny THE DEPARTURE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside the glassy evening sea Last Line: And all its strings crushed in the dripping weed. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DEPARTURE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night wears on, the lawns are grey with dew Last Line: And leave him in the wilderness alone? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DESERTER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I know not why or whence he came Last Line: The house where faith is dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE DIFFERENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some weep because they part Last Line: Because they never parted. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DIVISION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the windows, creaking doors Last Line: And longer than the years! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DREAM GIRL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: With footfall soft as angel's Last Line: Ah! Still the air is warm. Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation THE DYING SISTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling boy Last Line: Waiting for you! Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Praise; Separation; Isolation; Paradise THE EMIGRANT'S WISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wish we were hame to our ain folk Last Line: The hames are the hames o' our ain folk Subject(s): Absence;wishes; Separation;isolation THE EVENING OF THE MIND, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the evening of the mind Last Line: And empty spaces in the throat Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE EXILE TO HIS WIFE, by JOSEPH BRENAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, dearest, I'm lonely without Last Line: Come to the heart that is throbbing to press thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brennan, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; Separation; Isolation THE FACE OF THE PRECIPICE IS BLACK WITH LOVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you now Last Line: Scatching a living from the snow Subject(s): Absence; Love; Snow; Separation; Isolation THE FAITHFUL ONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The bird that fills my ears with song Last Line: Remember me and come back home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy THE FARTHER SHORE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We gazed far out upon the lonely main Last Line: And guide my vessel o'er this sea to her! Subject(s): Absence; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE GENTLE GHOST OF JOY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while ago you knew not I was I Last Line: When your face I do not see! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Separation; Isolation; Joy; Delight THE GROVE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shake, shake thy shadows down, thy dark / leaves down Last Line: Slept, with the wind close to their bosom caught. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE HAPPY DEAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he for whom, through portals strangely wrought Last Line: As ways trod once through blinding mirk of night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Mortality; Obituaries; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE HEART'S JOURNEY: 5, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were glad tonight: and now you've gone away Last Line: Recall you to these arms that were your home. Variant Title(s): Lovers Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you. Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 17. BEAUTY'S PAGEANT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dawn-pulse at the heart of heaven, or last Last Line: Unborn, that read these words and saw her not. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 40. SEVERED SELVES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two separate divided silences Last Line: Faint as shed flowers, the attenuated dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 46. PARTED LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of this embattled day Last Line: And thy heart rends thee, and thy body endures. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 84. FAREWELL TO THE GLEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stream-fed glen, why say 'farewell' to thee Last Line: And thy trees whispered what he feared to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY ONWARDS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As slow our ship her foamy track Last Line: Of joy that's left behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE KINE OF MY FATHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The kine of my father, they are straying from my keeping Last Line: Bitter is your trouble -- and I am far from you. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE KISSES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When we two parted never a word was spoken. Almost we thought Last Line: How short our kisses seem! Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation THE LADY'S SONNET. TWILIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not why I chose to seem so cold Last Line: "I'll send your answer."" now I've told you all." Subject(s): Absence; Women; Separation; Isolation THE LAMENT OF SELIM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of the bosphorus Last Line: Shall sun itself in azza's light. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE LAST GOOD-BYE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Is often heard Last Line: "a long, a last ""good-bye." Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation THE LEGACY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She died when I was wild and young Last Line: In the kiss on her ghostly hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE LETTER, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is she writing? Watch her now Last Line: Tis sent from england's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation THE LETTER, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, men in thick green coats came crunching Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE LIFT DESCENDING, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: The lift descending took my love from me Last Line: And all time stopped, though space was still escaping. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE LITTLE COAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's his ragged 'round-a-bout' Last Line: Beckon us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood THE LITTLE THINGS, by FRANCIS T. KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: Ah, how I have loved the little best things / of love Last Line: And the soft swelling of your breasts against me when I quieted you to sleep. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOST LAND, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have two daughters Subject(s): Daughters; Ireland; Absence; Irish; Separation; Isolation THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE MAN WHO SAW THE END OF THE JOURNEY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known anguish, loss and disappointment Last Line: Hand in hand a moment, let us gaze and love thee! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE MEETING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She flitted by me on the stair Last Line: A moment since I knew not of her! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE MIST, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun and the dew were so far apart Last Line: Ere the sun had set. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE MISTRESS; A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An age in her embraces passed [past] Last Line: And make us blessed at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Of His Mistress Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true." Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD HOUSE AND THE APPLETREE, by VIDA B. BUTCHER Poem Text First Line: Somewhat back from the broad highway Last Line: Wrapped in blossoms and memory. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE ONE I LOVE IS GONE AWAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My lefe is faren in a lond Last Line: With trew love a thousandfold Subject(s): Absence;love; Separation;isolation THE OTHER SIDE OF A MIRROR, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I sat before my glass one day Last Line: "that heard me whisper, ""I am she!" Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE PARTING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Subject(s): Absence;hearts;love;youth; Separation;isolation THE PARTING GUEST, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sigh no more for the days that are gone Last Line: But none is permitted to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE PILLOW, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we still travelling? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 55, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows grow dark like mist Last Line: No swallow nests allowed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Absence; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green Last Line: To court another! Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations THE PROBLEM, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two parted long, and yearning long to meet Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE PROPHETESS, by KATHERINE AGNES HUME Poem Text First Line: I watched you o'er the tea-cloth's cool Last Line: Of old, for still do life and stream seem one. Subject(s): Absence; Shadows; Separation; Isolation THE PULL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the flu goes on, I get thinner and thinner Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE QUEST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must follow where she beckons through the dim Last Line: I must seek and I may find her in the perfume of a rose. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE QUIET KINGDOM, by CARL BUSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quiet kingdom's strand Last Line: By one who yearneth deep as we. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE RETURN, by LUCIA STEVENS DE MOTTE Poem Text First Line: Now you are gone Last Line: My hushed heart waits for you. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Spring; Separation; Isolation THE RIVAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Separation; Isolation THE RIVER-MECHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedi Subject(s): Nature; Marriage; Againg; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by LI PO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Last Line: As far as cho-fu-sa. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Variant Title(s): Cathay: The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Subject(s): Absence; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Men; Teenagers; Separation; Isolation; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ROCK BESIDE THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me not the woods are fair Last Line: My lone rock by the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, wad that my time were owre but Last Line: And were what I hae been! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And are ye sure the news is true? Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Variant Title(s): There's Nae Luck About The House;the Mariner's Wife Subject(s): Absence; Reunions; Separation; Isolation THE SEARCH FOR LEAVEN, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tender, loving maiden Last Line: Often dreaming on the broom. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Jews; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Judaism THE SELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I feel so far from you Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SEPARATION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me not what my love shall do or be Last Line: Sad troubled ghosts about their graves doe stray. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SHIP O' THE FIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh! Where hae ye been, my lang-lost lover" Last Line: And sank her in the sea Subject(s): Absence;hell; Separation;isolation THE SIEGE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when he was away, across the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven Last Line: Wish I was there with you Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 11, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And many a sunset drew into the west Last Line: Thro' the soft mist, in pearly pink ensphered. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 61, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I may not take you with me, heartes dear Last Line: And seal'd him hers with one long deathless kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Separation; Isolation THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 70, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Within the appointed time he did compel Last Line: Once more his prow the frothy seas doth spurn. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 71, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His heart sings louder than the shrilling gale Last Line: His full sail swells before the straining mast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 80, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou who fashion'd her so beautiful Last Line: Save, lord, I may not—till thou cleansest me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 82, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Silent he kneels beside his muted dove Last Line: Homeward he turns his wistful wife to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SPEEDING OF THE KING'S SPITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A king - estranged from his loving queen Last Line: "could have ended so happily!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Love; Separation; Isolation THE SQUAW'S LAMENT, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: A blood-red ring hung round the moon Last Line: I hear the loon cry every night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Variant Title(s): The Indian Maid's Lament Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Native Americans - Women; Separation; Isolation; Squaws THE STORY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met each other in the glade Last Line: Alas! Alas! For breaking hearts when lovers rove away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Summer; Separation; Isolation THE STORY AFTER THE STORY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation THE STREET, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, walking the streets with me tonight? Last Line: O god! I had forgotten—! The street is between us. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Separation; Isolation THE SYCAMINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frail yellow leaves they are falling Last Line: Ye know not where ye tread! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation THE TOLLING BELL, by GRANT COCHRAN KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled while I slept Last Line: The bell tolled while I slept. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, sleep Last Line: The touch of a vanished hand! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE VISION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Softly she comes at the close of day Last Line: Can leave the world so drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE VOICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE WANDERER FROM THE FOLD, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few, of all the hearts that loved Last Line: Have both forgotten thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): E.w. To A.g.a. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WANDERERS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out from her doorway peeped the little maid Last Line: Have you forgotten?—yet you knew him well. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WAY TO WAIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O whether by the lonesome road Last Line: For love that finds a way to come, can find a way to wait! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Waiting; Separation; Isolation THE WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Linger not long. Home is not home wihtout thee Last Line: "haste, as a skiff, through tempests wide and swelling, / flies to its haven of securest rest!" Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love THE WING OF SEPARATION, by IBN DARRAJ AL-ANDALUSI Poem Text First Line: The wing of separation / bore me away Last Line: (j. B. Trend) Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Darraj Al-qastalli Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WOE OF IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet was the mavis' song of eld Last Line: And — ah! The bitter woe of it! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THEME OF ABSENCE, by EDUARDO CARRANZA Poem Source First Line: The forgotten one raises the eyes Last Line: Of love, and food %of the birds of prey Subject(s): Absence THEN TOO THERE IS THIS, by J. ALLYN ROSSER Poem Source First Line: Joy in the day's being done, however Last Line: In the throat much deeper down Subject(s): Absence; Solitude THERE WAS A TIGER HERE, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: A bright spring rain fell the day through Last Line: Through the white, fog chambers beneath december's skies Subject(s): Absence; Memory THERE'S NO ONE HERE AT THE MOMENT, by CONOR O'CALLAGHAN First Line: It happens once, in his absence Last Line: Or the day after, wipe away Subject(s): Absence; Telephones THEY PUT US FAR APART, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Each other's setting - saw Variant Title(s): Poem: 474; Poem: 70 Subject(s): Absence THEY SAY, by OKSON Poem Source First Line: They say love is good for one Last Line: You must give pain Subject(s): Absence; Love THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Last Line: Since I have heard your voice Subject(s): Absence; Longing THIN ICE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now this paste of ash and water Last Line: This cold's life, death's steamy mark and target. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Atlantic Ocean; Death; Ice; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THINGS UNSEEN, by MARGARET FERGUSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ramakrishna crosses a paddy field Alternate Author Name(s): Gibson, Margaret Subject(s): Absence; Life THINKIN' LONG, by ANNA JOHNSTON MACMANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thinkin' long's the weary work! Last Line: At me for thinkin' long. Alternate Author Name(s): Carbery, Ethna Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 28, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So quick, so hot, so mad is thy fond suit Last Line: But never, as you dream, in bed, or grave. Subject(s): Love – Absence Of THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had expected more than this. %I had not expected to be %anordinary woman Subject(s): Absence; African Americans - Women; Aging; Mothers And Daughters THIS ROOM, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The room I entered was a dream of this room Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THIS SUPPOSED ALCHEMY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you took was: an arm, a hand, a face Last Line: It no longer meets Subject(s): Absence; Alchemy & Alchemists; Love; Separation; Isolation THIS SUPPOSED ALCHEMY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you took was: an arm, a hand, a face Last Line: The check will always be proffered, but the seam, %it no longer meets Subject(s): Absence; Alchemy And Alchemists; Love THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire distorts. Water objects. Buttery fields Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT, TO MEMORY DEAR, by RUTHVEN JENKYNS Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart, good-by! The fluttering sail Last Line: Though lost to sight, to mem'ry dear. Variant Title(s): Good Bye Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THOUGHTS IN SEPARATION, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never meet; yet we meet day by day Last Line: Thou to thy crucifix, I to my mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THREE FRAGMENTS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion is rising, and the air Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THWARTED, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poet's Biography First Line: Twarted, old friend! We have been baulked again Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TIME, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: I confront you, oh life without sheaves Last Line: Your fog is rising over my high tide Subject(s): Absence; Passion; Solitude TIS CUSTOMARY AS WE PART, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of her electric hair Variant Title(s): Poem: 440; Poem: 62 Subject(s): Absence TIT FOR TAT ILLIBERAL, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: Sly is short for sylvia and des %for desmond Subject(s): Absence TO A DEAD LADY, by ANTONIO CISNEROS Poem Source First Line: Right from the start I knew I'd follow you like a grenadier Last Line: Communion, in perfect equilibrium %for ever Subject(s): Absence TO A DISTANT ONE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through wild by-ways I come to you, my love Last Line: Strong as the spring is strong. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO A FRIEND I CAN'T FIND, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What about this, after all Last Line: The living started digging out Subject(s): Absence; Colorado (state); Friendship; Separation; Isolation TO AN ABSENT FRIEND, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The day thy happy path crossed mine it seemed Last Line: Thou inspiration art eternally. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation TO AN ABSENTEE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er hill, and dale, and distant sea Last Line: But when they flew were recognised! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO B..., by JAMES R. AGGELES Poem Text First Line: I listen for your coming Last Line: I wilt. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TO CARA, AFTER AN INTERVAL OF ABSENCE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Conceal'd within the shady wood Last Line: O cara! -- does the infant live? Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO CHLOE; AN APOLOGY FOR GOING INTO THE COUNTRY, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, we must not always be in heaven Last Line: That keeps alive the sacred fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Separation; Isolation TO CLIO. FROM ROME, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear clio, every day / some sweet idea dies away Last Line: No more the trifles of my care. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO DELIA, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me to whatever state the gods assign Last Line: Would quit that heaven to find a happier place? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO EMMA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since now the hour is come at last Last Line: Oh, god! The fondest, last adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO EUGENE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Still keep the habit of your love Last Line: To welcome me, eugene. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TO HER IN ABSENCE; A SHIP, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toss'd in a troubled sea of griefs, I float Last Line: Where it for ever shall at anchor lie. Subject(s): Absence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation TO HIS ABSENT MISTRESS, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This rose I pluck in exile, dear Last Line: Of sorrow through the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO HIS MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grieve not, my celia, but with haste Last Line: But canker'd nature only alters th' heart. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO HIS MISTRESS IN ABSENCE, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from thy dearest self, the scope Last Line: That I may live because I hope no more! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO HIS WIFE (COMPOSED AT ROTTERDAM), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaze upon a city Last Line: I drink at rotterdam! Variant Title(s): Rotterdam;to His Wife Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips TO HUANG JI-FU, by HUANG CHING-JEN+(1) Poem Source First Line: I am lodged by the northern sea Last Line: With gibbons wailing across the creek %among miasmal vines Subject(s): Absence; China - Song Dynasty (960-1278) TO INEZ; IN ABSENCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Sweetly o'er th' atlantic sea Last Line: Has still a charm in having thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO INEZ; IN LAMENT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thou! Who in my happier days Last Line: Oh! Teach me humbly to resign! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking TO K. H., by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O far withdrawn into the lonely west Last Line: Round-arched, goes up to god in lapis lazuli? Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO KATHARINE, by WILLIAM CARY SANGER JR. Poem Text First Line: I often wonder, dear / if in the day Last Line: If you are also thinking then of me. Subject(s): Absence; Wishes; Separation; Isolation TO LESBIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lesbia! Since far from you I've ranged Last Line: Fonder, alas! They ne'er can be, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Absence; Leacroft, Julia; Love; Separation; Isolation TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If to be absent were to be Last Line: In heaven, -- their earthly bodies left behind. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Absence; Immortality; Love; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind Last Line: Loved I not honour more. Variant Title(s): Going To The Wars;song Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Duty; Heroism; Honor; Love; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Heroes; Heroines TO M.L.B., by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A solace fond and sought in fate's despite Last Line: You see the hand, and dream you hear the call. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO MARY (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary dear, that you were here! Last Line: The castle echo whispers 'here!' Subject(s): Absence; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Separation; Isolation TO MAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: May, like a maiden soft and fair Last Line: A glimpse of what thy love might be! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 5. IN HER ABSENCE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is her couch, this is her very nest Last Line: Who never yet broke promise or was late.' Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MR. DAVENANT FOR ABSENCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wonder not, if I stay not here Last Line: Drinks wine I' th' very height o' th' fever. Subject(s): Absence; Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668); Separation; Isolation TO MRS. M.A. UPON ABSENCE, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now since I began to die Last Line: Love me no more, for I am grown %too dead and dull for thee to own Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Absence TO MY BROTHER MIGUEL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, today I'm on the stone bench outside our house Last Line: In coming out. Okay? It could upset mama Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Home; Love TO MY FRIENDS, WHO RIDICULED A TENDER LEAVE-TAKING, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laugh, my friends, and without blame Last Line: Quick, thy tablets, memory! Variant Title(s): A Memory-picture Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO MY MISTRESS IN ABSENCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I must live here, and by force Last Line: Till souls and bodies both may meet. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: And afterward if we should ever meet Last Line: All that had ceased to matter long ago. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO ONE AWAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a cry in the night Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TO PART, by ANN B. KNOX Poem Source First Line: No wonder to part stirs Last Line: When I address the word, part Subject(s): Absence; Language TO PENELOPE, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing impossible as this one time Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Homecoming; Separation; Isolation TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho Last Line: The glory of a dream. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness TO SEPARATE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bantamweight brawler we all pigheadedly bet Last Line: Provided for us to be otherwise - mortal, and lost, %and created in halfness Subject(s): Absence TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tormented with incessant pains Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us. Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery TO THE BELOVED FROM AFAR, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His sweet rose here oversea Last Line: Her soft warbling passes. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO THE BIO-BIO, by ANDRES BELLO Poem Source First Line: Blest were he, o bio-bio! Last Line: Wish to live now for myself' Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Solitude TO THE BOY BRIAN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: The poppy has spread out her petticoat red Last Line: Come quickly to me. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TO THE GREAT ZERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the self-made being made nothing, he Last Line: To death, to silence and to oblivion Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Absence TO THE KING AND QUEEN, UPON THEIR UNHAPPY DISTANCES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe, woe to them, who (by a ball of strife) Last Line: The words found true, c. M. Remember me. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TO THE PARTED ONE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thou art now no longer near! Last Line: O, come to me again, dear love. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TO THE PAST, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every microsecond of the present, you're here Last Line: Together, might past, we dominate Subject(s): Past; Love – Loss Of; Absence TO THE READER: TWILIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I look Subject(s): Evening; Absence; Sunset; Twilight; Separation; Isolation TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 16. A FAREWELL, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all my will, but much against my heart Last Line: With tears of recognition never dry. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TO YOU, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are little boats Last Line: It is my thought of you. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Romance; Seashore; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore TO----, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Sunless days and starless nights Last Line: And the starlight of your eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery TOMORROW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our loved ones departed still live with us yet Last Line: As morning breaks forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints; Separation; Isolation; Parting TONIGHT I CAN WRITE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I can write the saddest lines Last Line: And these the last verses that I write for her Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Love; Poetry And Poets TOO LATE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was I with my arm and heart Last Line: Ere I drank it, and you down with it, thus! Subject(s): Loss; Absence; Separation; Isolation TOUCH, by JERRY WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I wish I hadn't called Last Line: I loved you so much, %but something happened Subject(s): Absence; Love TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A RIVERDERCI, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more in dreams, wandering along the road by the sea Last Line: And laughing part with bright a rivederci. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. INTO THE REGIONS OF THE SUN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So at last passing (the great sea stilled, the raging ocean) - passing away Last Line: Lo! The dead we leave behind, and pass to the realms of the living. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. PHILOLAUS TO DIOCLES, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often at dusk, dear friend, when thou art absent Last Line: So oft, in dreamless peace, close-linked with thee. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Peace; Separation; Isolation TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE TRYSTING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the hills, ten miles, in the cloudless summer morning Last Line: And gains her presence at the feet of god. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRACE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendships with one or two, yes, three Last Line: Long since consumed Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Summer TRAPEZE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To float you must float from within Last Line: Like fireflies -- when pressure mounts beneath it Subject(s): Absence TREASURES ON EARTH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What no one wants. Coin by coin Last Line: Intervals — till you shut it off completely Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Absence; Transience; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TRIAGE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When there is no more life, Last Line: Drawn into the power of a hole. Subject(s): Absence TRIBUTE, by LILIAN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: Three is not a crowd when she is the third Last Line: With a fond comrade at her shrine. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation TRIBUTE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's face is fair Last Line: So she would understand! Subject(s): Absence; Children; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood TRUANTS, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: The moonbeams live, pulsate, and dance Last Line: To a punishment they had earned. Subject(s): Absence; Babies; Family Life; Separation; Isolation; Infants; Relatives TRUE UNTIL DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a' for our rightfu' king Last Line: The lee-lang night, and weep. Variant Title(s): The Farewell;it Was A' For Our Rightfu' King Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 14, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mysterious spring still lay under a spell Last Line: That you cannot say a single word Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Absence; Spring TWILIGHT, by FOREST M. KELP Poem Text First Line: Jes' a-smokin' Last Line: Prayin' you're a-lovin' too! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness TWILIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight is sad and cloudy Last Line: Drive the colour from her cheek? Subject(s): Absence; Children; Dusk; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Ocean TWO FOR THE FIRE: 2. EROS AND AGAPE, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: What you would use Last Line: And heart, what you left %burning behind you Subject(s): Absence; Travel TWO POEMS FOR LADY COLLATOR RIU RUSHI: 1, by LI YIN Poem Source First Line: I won't pull off a long branch to mark our separation Last Line: Better to preserve the willow's youthfulness, and let them stretch long as before Subject(s): Absence; Liu Shi (1618-1684) TWO SANQU LYRICS, TO THE TUNE ZHE GUI LING, by HUANG E Poem Source First Line: I'll write to you that thoughtless ingrate, that callous fellow Last Line: Until we meet, my itching heart cannot be scratched Subject(s): Absence; Erotic Love UNALLOYED, by THOMAS PAIGE DALPORTO Poem Source First Line: Last night in a deserted field Last Line: And after %you went away Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Guitars; Love; Music And Musicians UNCOMFORTED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lelloine! Lelloine! Don't you Last Line: And tell him you are lonely without your mother there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Heaven; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise UNDER THE BRIDGE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never know when somebody will Last Line: And look what the one thrust gave him Subject(s): Absence UNFINISHED LANDSCAPE WITH A DOG, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Not much of a dog yet, Last Line: Unnamed as yet, unformed, unfound. Subject(s): Absence; Paintings And Painters UNFORESEEN, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All trees move %at all times Last Line: Lips, like news that stuns Subject(s): Absence UNTIMELY TIME, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved purity, which my eyes Last Line: Little was born, but so much is dying! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory UNTITLED, by RAMON TODD DANDARE Poem Source First Line: Island of mine, I want Last Line: Island of mine, I want %to change your face Subject(s): Absence; Islands; Love UP, DOWN, SIDEWAYS, AND ACROSS, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Your breath still smells of cigarette smoke like the night we Last Line: Your memory stains me up, down, sideways, and across Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory UTTERANCES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I do not want to know that you are dead Last Line: My eyes close, as you shake loose your skin Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts VANISHING, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: You wish to pull yourself together Last Line: In order to help you out %of your loneliness Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude VAPOR, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the monks perspire Last Line: Around them will be crying Subject(s): Absence VARIANT ON THE THE SONGS OF THE EAST AND WEST GATES, by TS'AO TS'AO Poem Source First Line: Wild geese go north of the passes Last Line: How can one forget home Subject(s): Absence; China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.) VASHTI, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far- / off land I used to know Last Line: Served low at her feet. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Hearts; Love - Cultural Differences; Memory; Slavery; Separation; Isolation; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Serfs VERTIGO, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sing now. %sing from on high, high roof Last Line: To tuck in their tails %and fold Subject(s): Absence VESPERS (9), by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: End of august. Heat Last Line: No hope %of enduring? Blaze of the red cheek, glory %of the open throat, white, %spotted with crimso Subject(s): Absence; Tomatoes VIBRATION, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: You live, afar, across a continent Last Line: I feel your thoughts wing by! Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking VILLANELLE: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE - 2, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Separation; Isolation VISIONS OF NEVER BEING HEARD FROM AGAIN, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped by to see you but you were not home Subject(s): Absence; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology WAIT, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The day slows, fills Last Line: Is making his way across the universe Subject(s): Absence; Cuba; Home; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Waiting WAITING FOR YOU, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: The night is ocean, horizon Last Line: I wait, I listen for you Subject(s): Absence; Love; Waiting WALKING IN THE HILLS AND LOOKING FOR THE RECLUDE .. NOT FINDING HIM IN, by QIU WEI Poem Source First Line: On the very summit his thatched-roof hut Last Line: The mood departed, I went downhill; %there was no longer need to wait for you Subject(s): Absence; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Guests WALKING, SHE IS A SOLILOQUY, AN ALCHEMY OF LIFE ITSELF, ERECT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Sea, surely he will be in heaven Subject(s): Absence; Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Heaven; Human Rights - Argentina WALTER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The changing moon will circle through the skies Last Line: And I am left alone. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness WALTHER VON DEM VOGELTHAL, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my door I washed my hair Last Line: Come whistling home again! Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation WANDERING ICE, by LARISSA SZPORLUK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are swallows Last Line: And be found perhaps %next time, %next ice age? Subject(s): Absence WATERHOUSE, by GREG HEWETT Poem Source First Line: For my friend an architect Last Line: To greet you again Subject(s): Absence; Architecture And Architects; Buildings And Builders; Friendship WATERING MY HORSE BY THE GREAT WALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Green, green the grass by the river Last Line: It began, 'take care of yourself,' %and ended, 'I love you forever' Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Great Wall, China WATERY SKIRTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: All night long, her skirt, topsy-turvy, erupts Last Line: Submerged between the crevices or bones %of the tide Subject(s): Absence; Love WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That would be waving and that would be crying Last Line: Have I except it comes from the sun? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That would be waving and that would be crying Last Line: Have I except it comes from the sun Subject(s): Absence WE PARTED IN SILENCE, by JULIA CRAWFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We parted in silence, we parted by night' Last Line: But the odor and bloom of those bygone years %shall hang o'er its waters forever Alternate Author Name(s): Macartney, Louise; Crawford, Louisa Matilda Jane Subject(s): Absence WE TIED HIS HORSE, by IMNIWOL Poem Source First Line: We tied his horse to the woven gate Last Line: I will not be forgetting Subject(s): Absence; Love WEARYIN' FOR YOU, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' a - wearyin' for you Last Line: Jes' a-wearyin' for you! Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness WEATHER, by CECILIA WOLOCH Poem Source First Line: There is this thread which is really nothing Last Line: You can't move forward, %some death has your heart Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women WESTERN WIND (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o western wind, when wilt thou blow, / the small rain down can rain?" Last Line: "christ, if my love were in my arms / and I in my bed again!" Variant Title(s): The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring;seventeenth-century Poem Subject(s): Absence;longing;love;love - Loss Of;wind; Separation;isolation WET BREAD AND ROASTED PEARLS, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through a filmstrip of train windows Last Line: Sliding over your taut silk %they sound like breath Subject(s): Absence; Gothic Drama; Poetry And Poets; Rhyme; Writing And Writers WET WEATHER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the english in me that loves the soft Last Line: And the sound of water calling, as it used to call at home. Subject(s): Absence; Rain; Separation; Isolation WHAT AILS THIS HEART O'MINE?, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails this heart of mine? Last Line: What can part thee and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation WHAT I LOVE, by LORINC SZABO Poem Source First Line: I must love the things Last Line: Because they're all that's left of her Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of WHAT IT TAKES, by OLGA ABELLA Poem Source First Line: Tiger lillies stand erect by my mother's house Last Line: And hear her soft accent in my own voice Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Tiger Lilies WHAT LIES IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR EYES?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: What lies in the depths Last Line: Because you are a butterfly luminous in the mirrors Subject(s): Absence; Blindness; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Prisons And Prisoners; Terror WHAT STRUCK ME, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: What struck me from the sound Last Line: As though tears rose from green Subject(s): Absence; Emotions; Grief; Love; Tears WHAT THE DUST DOES, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't be measured. It filters everywhere, all night Last Line: Maybe there's still something hidden in there, something green %as it is invisible, flickering in th Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of WHAT WILL THEY DO?, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will they do when in am gone? It is plain Last Line: Until that one turned back and lightly laughed? Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Absence WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she says margarita she means daiquiri. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Drinks & Drinking; Absence; Wine; Separation; Isolation WHEN I LOVE YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation WHEN TWO ARE PARTED, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When two who love are parted Last Line: Came later—and to me. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation WHEN YOU ARE ON THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I laugh or dance as others do Last Line: When you are on the sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean WHEN YOU GO AWAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you go away the wind clicks around to the north Last Line: Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Absence WHENCE?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Will he come to us out of the west Last Line: My rose-wreath at his feet.' Subject(s): Absence; Separation;isolation WHERE IS DOMINGA?, by FRANCISCO SAA DE MIRANDA Poem Source First Line: All gather from the village here Last Line: Where is dominga? - tell me where Subject(s): Absence WHERE WE THINK WE LIVE, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent house %he left her, the cat and I Last Line: Trembling tissues, in this cold rain Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude WHERE WERE YOU?, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was planting bulbs, my hands deep in the earth Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation WHILE WATCHING 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT' I THINK OF MY MOTHER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pull down the shades. Those waifs Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Absence; Abandonment; Separation; Isolation; Desertion WHITE NOCTURNE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night Last Line: Wait far off in the undisturbing night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WHITE ORCHIDS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: They do not use the air Last Line: Yet fierce with grace %and riveting Subject(s): Absence; Orchids WHITE SOLITUDE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: In calm of sleep Last Line: All that remains is the fact of your absence Subject(s): Absence; Death WHITHER?, by LILLA BOGERT Poem Text First Line: So tangled are my days and ways Last Line: Asleep and safe! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation WHO CAUGHT YOU, by KUNGNYO Poem Source First Line: Who caught you, fish, then set you free Last Line: You and I are the same Subject(s): Absence WHO SHALL SAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I toiled on, but thou Last Line: Still rememberest thou? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Rest; Separation; Isolation WHO WAVER IN THE WAKE OF WINDS, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Text First Line: Now / are the gods departed Last Line: Night Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Variant Title(s): Contemplation Of The Word Subject(s): Abandonment; Absence; Desertion; Separation; Isolation WHY?, by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Chill fall nights with a harvest moon - Last Line: And I shall quite forget you -- soon. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation WIDOW; 2ND NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, LATE AUTUMN, 1862, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: I call still question god-how now forsake me? Last Line: Borrow its blue forever from your cloud-crossed stare? Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Women And War WIFE IS AWAY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh welcome, lone cricket, thy song Last Line: The wife who is far, far away. Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness WILD GEESE SANG, by KUMHONG Poem Source First Line: Wild geese sang across a thin jade sky Last Line: Its cold glimmers faded within me Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Geese; Love - Loss Of; Wings WILL YE NO COME BACK AGAIN?, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie charlie's now awa Last Line: But aye to me he sings ae sang, %will ye no come back again? Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Loyalty; Stuart, Charles Edward (young Pretender) WIND, by JORGE HUBNER Poem Source First Line: Out of the clouds you fashion great armfuls of white %lilies Last Line: For the ideal future I may be the virgin field! Subject(s): Absence; Music And Musicians WINGED OMENS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mauve dusk enshrouds the saffron west Last Line: (so comes my love.) Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Hawks; Love; Separation; Isolation WINGS OVER MAXIMUS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: 51 pegasus a sun Last Line: "& her name was solitaire" Subject(s): Absence; Solitude WINTER IN MEATH (TO TOMAS TRANSTROMER), by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Again we have been surprised Last Line: But the sky healed up again after the passing that left %only a faint, pink thread, like a scar Subject(s): Absence; Memory WINTER LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you fell asleep Last Line: (if I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.) Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Grief WINTER PIECE, by GUIDO GOZZANO Poem Source First Line: Cree - ee - eak %the spreading fracture Last Line: Her small hand to me as she hissed -- you worm Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy WINTER REMEMBERED, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Subject(s): Winter; Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WISH YOU WERE HERE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: My dear friend: Last Line: That you were here with us. Hugs and kisses. Greetings from my %husband. %your dear friend Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Las Vegas, Nevada; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration WOLF MOON, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: This moon seeps through, leaves Last Line: As if it alone outlasts the cold Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Night WOMAN, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Where her house stood, she goes on living Last Line: To the fire of her breast Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Women WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE'S IN LOVE WITH MY HUSBAND, by AMBER COVERDALE SUMRALL Poem Source First Line: She whispers %into the black Last Line: What I'm missing Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women WOMAN, SONG AND SEASON, by WALTER L. ROOSA Poem Text First Line: No more songs of summer to me! Last Line: And run its way. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Mothers; Women; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WONDERFUL THINGS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne, who are dead and whom I loved in a rather asinine fashion Last Line: Tell you wonderful things Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation WRIT IN WATER, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy night we made the vow Last Line: Has yielded to the first that sought her. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation WRITING MY HUSBAND IN KELAN [SHANXI], by DONG SHAOYU Poem Source First Line: Still stuck out there on the frontier Last Line: Just go for the high rank Subject(s): Absence WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING HER AT NEW BURNS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How quick the change from joy to woe Last Line: You best may tell who feel the same. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WRITTEN FOR OLD FRIENDS IN YANG-JOU CITY, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the apes howl sadly Last Line: At the western reach of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Absence YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I held your hand Last Line: Look where gleams the morrow. Subject(s): Absence; Time; Separation; Isolation YI QIN E, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: The sentimental moon Last Line: As it suddenly flickers, and goes out Subject(s): Absence YONG YU LE: IN A BOAT, MOVED BY THE PAST, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Intact are the peach blossoms Last Line: As though sharing one's desolate grief Subject(s): Absence YOU, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slanting rain and a sky of gray Last Line: And you—at home! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Rain; Water; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness YOU ARE GONE, by RUTH PEARL GOODMAN Poem Text First Line: One white candle with soft red light Last Line: Each lonely tear was left to me. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation YOU LEFT, by MA CHIH-YUAN Poem Source First Line: You left %and there's been Subject(s): Absence YOU TALK ALL ALONE THEN AGAIN NOT ALONE SINCE ONE NEVER, by DOMINIQUE FOURCADE Poem Source Last Line: But many have turned towards you Subject(s): Absence; Presence; Solitude YOUR ABSENCE HAS NOT TAUGHT ME, by DOUG FETHERLING Poem Source Subject(s): Absence |
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