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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


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 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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An unearthing / my valentine
Subject(s): Death; Absence; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are men and women huddled in rooms tonight
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


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 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; 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Absent! The morning when I go away
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Remorse; Separation; Isolation; Parting


ACROSS THE BAY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem 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


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 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 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 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 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 YEARS, by TED KOOSER    Poem 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


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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: See my colors fall apart? Green
Subject(s): Colors; Landscape; Absence; Separation; Isolation


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


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


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


CAMP OF NO RETURN, by JAMES TATE    Poem 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


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


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


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 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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Offshore salt lapping up against a lighthouse flashing red
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


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


DOROTHEA TANNING'S COUSINS, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem 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


DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Travel; Love - Complaints; Disappointment; Absence; Journeys; Trips; Separation; Isolation


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


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


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


EITHER, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem 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: 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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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


FEBRUARY 13,1980, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem 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


FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem 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


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


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 Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today there've been moments
Subject(s): Absence; Daughters; Railroads; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains


FOR D., by ROSANNA WARREN    Poem 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


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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's not your mountain
Subject(s): Absence; Bears; Separation; Isolation


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


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


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


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


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 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


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 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, 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 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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 NEED YOUR BODY NEAR ME, by TIMOTHY LIU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ocean is nothing, there is no separation
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


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 WON, YOU LOST, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last of day gathers
Subject(s): Old Age; Absence; Separation; Isolation


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 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 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


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 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


LETTER TO THE FRONT, 2, by BARBARA RAS    Poem 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


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


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 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 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


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


LOSING TRACK, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long after you have swung back
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


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


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 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


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


LUGGAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem 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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We left our footprints on a night like this
Subject(s): Snow; Absence; Separation; Isolation


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


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 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


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


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 YOU, by GONG PEIYU    Poem 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 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


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


MOTETS: 4, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had lost hope almost
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


MOTETS: 7, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem 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


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 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


MYSTERY, by OCTAVIO PAZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters
Subject(s): Absence; Mystery; Separation; Isolation


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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


OTHER LIVES AND DIMENSIONS AND FINALLY A LOVE POEM, by BOB HICOK    Poem 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


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


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 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


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 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


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


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


PETERKIN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem 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


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


POSTCARDS FROM ROTTERDAM, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem 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 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


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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fourteen anniversaries
Last Line: Someone had to go
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


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


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


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


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


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


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


RONDEAU REDOUBLÉ (AND SCARCELY WORTH THE TROUBLE, AT THAT), by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem 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


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


SAMURAI SONG, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I had no roof I made
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


SLUM LORDS, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Upper Classes; Absence; Neighbors; Separation; Isolation


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


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 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 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 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 (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 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/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 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


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 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, 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: 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 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


STAG'S LEAP, by SHARON OLDS    Poem 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


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


START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem 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


STILL LIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem 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


STRAIN, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is late
Subject(s): Insomnia; Absence; Sleeplessness; Separation; Isolation


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


THIS ROOM, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem 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 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 UNMENTIONABLE FEELING, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem 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 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


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 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 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 PENELOPE, by DONALD REVELL    Poem 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 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 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 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 READER: TWILIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Separation; Isolation


VISIONS OF NEVER BEING HEARD FROM AGAIN, by REBECCA WOLFF    Poem 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


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


WAVING ADIEU, ADIEU, ADIEU, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem 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


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


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 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


WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem 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 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


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 WERE YOU?, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem 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 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


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 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


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


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


WINTER REMEMBERED, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Subject(s): Winter; Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


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 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


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


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


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