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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SEPARATION Matches Found: 678 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "A LETTER TO MY LOVE - ALL ALONE, PAST 12, IN THE DUMPS", by THE AMOROUS LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Oh! Weep with me the changing scene Last Line: "or if, my love, that could not be, / I would turn air to mix with thee" Alternate Author Name(s): The Amorous Lady Subject(s): Absence;love; Separation;isolation 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 LETTER, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been wondering Last Line: The endless repetitions of his own murmurous blood Subject(s): Separation A LYRIC, by LORENZO DE' MEDICI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can I sing light-souled and fancy-free Last Line: When my loved lord no longer smiles on me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lorenzo The Magnificent Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation A MORNING RIDE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The coming day Last Line: The pacing queen one day you'll be! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation A OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the curiousest thing in creation Last Line: "the words ""do they miss me at home?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Home; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation A PARTING SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These winds and suns of spring Last Line: 03/26/80 Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Spring; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips A PLACE IN MAINE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Disappointment; Time; Family Life; Absence; Relatives; Separation; Isolation A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A REMINISCENCE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, thou art gone! And never more Last Line: Has gladdened once our humble sphere. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation A SAILOR BOLD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think I'd like to roam Last Line: Where mother and her kisses are. Subject(s): Absence; February; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A SAILOR'S SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We kissed good-bye in the gloaming Last Line: "till the trump of the judgment-day!" Subject(s): Absence; Love - Complaints; Sailing & Sailors; Separation; Isolation A 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are men and women huddled in rooms tonight Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ABSENCE, by 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we throw our eyes way out to sea Last Line: That boat. Subject(s): Absence; Boats; Mothers; Sea; Water; Separation; Isolation; Ocean AD INTERIM, by HELEN C. LAIRD Poem Text First Line: I think when I look across the street Last Line: And I fail to see it grieve. Subject(s): Absence; Houses; Separation; Isolation ADIEU, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waving whispering trees Last Line: Adieu, farewell, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ADJUSTMENT, by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: If I must live and live without you Last Line: I shall not think of you or of this year and smile. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER A PARTING, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell has long been said; I have forgotten thee Last Line: They draw my life, my life, out of my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER AN ABSENCE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After an absence that was no one's fault Subject(s): Absence; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER CALLIMACHUS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half my soul still breathes Last Line: With my straining eyes Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER PARTING, by MAUDE HAYNES Poem Text First Line: Although the room which once you knew Last Line: Between an april day and this! Alternate Author Name(s): Hollowell, William Paul, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER PARTING, by 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, from a distance, I saw you Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AGAINST ABSENCE, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My whining lover, what needs all Last Line: For surfeits sooner kill than fasts. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ALAS!, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since, if you stood by my side today Last Line: And to be as we are to-day! Subject(s): Separation ALONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When we're together, how the moments fly! Last Line: When years of life are heard to crash and fall! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ALONE, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's soft golden meshes make Last Line: A swoon of shame Subject(s): Solitude; Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ALONE, by 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 ELEGY ON THE LADY PEN; SENT TO MY MISTRESS OUT OF FRANCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him who from his tyrant mistress did Last Line: In either eye a tear, each hand a verse. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Grief; Separation 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 ARGUING BARTUSIAK, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The idea is, the marriage still exists Subject(s): Marriage; Separation; Fidelity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Faithfulness; Constancy 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 BARRELS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Separation; Wine 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: See my colors fall apart? Green Subject(s): Colors; Landscape; Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the old tree swing without swinging. My loafer had fallen off Subject(s): Sisters; Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sickness brought me to connecticut. Last Line: Forwarded, will begin to reach me here Subject(s): Christmas; Absence; Nativity, The; Separation; Isolation 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 DARK SMUDGED THE PATH UNTRAMMELED, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room was warm, sugar sweet, and wormwood bitter Subject(s): Separation 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 ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hadn't I been Subject(s): Separation 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 Full 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 livewithout 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to him in dreams, as he to her Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The DRIFT, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A northern hill aghast with weather Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Absence; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation ELEGY: 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What symmetry can there be Last Line: In pursuit of roads and balance, birds. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation ESTRANGEMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path from me to you that led Last Line: Where murmuring bees your name repeat. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-one years of my life you have been Last Line: Whatever I say Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The plane whumps down through rainclouds, streaks Subject(s): Absence; Air Travel; Separation; Isolation FOR FIVE LONG YEARS, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: The ax lay at your roots in deadly hush Last Line: A mystery which awes, transcends the mind of man. Subject(s): Absence; Death, Return From; Separation; Isolation FOR K.J., LEAVING AND COMING BACK, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August first: it was a year ago Subject(s): Relationships; Separation 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 FRAME, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tree that had patiently framed our view Subject(s): Separation 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fancied by your leech who owns Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation GOOD-BYE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Farewell!' is often heard Last Line: "yield what the heart must understand, / a long, a last good-be" Subject(s): Absence; Separation;isolation GOOD-BYE, OLD YEAR, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Good-bye, old year! For you and we must part Last Line: Our prayers to him above. Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Holidays; Love; New Year; Prayer; Separation; Isolation; Paradise GOOD-BYE, WENDOVER; GOOD-BYE, MOUNTAIN HOME, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wives on day-coaches traveling with a baby Subject(s): Absence; Army Life; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Drills & Minor Tactics; Second World War GUARD THY HEART!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Guard thy heart! As tho' thy ladye Last Line: Cheerly up the starry sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Old Age; Passion; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology GUNWALES OF ICE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 Full 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 Full 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 MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punishment? Banishment? The empty room Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Separation; Insomnia; Anxiety; Sleeplessness 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 IT WAS RAINING IN DELFT, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cornerstone. Marble pilings. Curbstones and brick. Subject(s): Love; Separation 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 LANDSCAPE WITH FRAME, by PAMELA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tomb of neferrenpet is decorated with birds & Alternate Author Name(s): Alexander, Pam Subject(s): Separation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is still, I listen for your voice. Subject(s): War - Home Front; Absence; Longing; Family Life; Letters; Separation; Isolation; Relatives LETTERS (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day brings a ship Last Line: Is the word they wish to hear. Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation 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 Full 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 Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Combed by the cold seas, bering and pacific Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): War; Sailors & Sailing; Absence; Love; Travel; Letters; War; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LOVE SONG AFTER ABSENCE, by C. E. SHUFORD Poem Text First Line: The days when you were gone Last Line: Cascade of fountained stars.... Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation LOVE'S CALENDAR; TO AN ABSENT WIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O since 'tis decreed by the envious fates Last Line: It may fairly be reckoned a year! Subject(s): Absence; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S NEARNESS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee when golden sunbeams glimmer Last Line: If thou wert here! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Relationships; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She carries her eyes from country to country Last Line: How it is good we only have two hands Subject(s): Absence; Strangers; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips LYNTON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it seem familiar ground Last Line: We never can forget. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MAD WIND, by CATHERINE BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Cold ashes crumble on my hearth tonight Last Line: O god, sometimes I think I shall go mad. Subject(s): Absence; Waiting; Separation; Isolation MADCHEN MIT DEM ROTHEN MUNDCHEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lassie, with the lips sae rosy Last Line: On that wee white hand should fa'. Subject(s): Absence; Thought; Separation; Isolation; Thinking MADRIGAL: LYCORIS, THE NYMPH, HER SAD SONG, by THOMAS MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dew of roses, steeping her lovely cheeks Last Line: Still shall haunt thee.' Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation MALLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah well-a-day! What will become of me? Last Line: My door stands open; open are my arms Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love MANUMISSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are free! When you are satisfied Last Line: Your love can leave no room for loneliness. Subject(s): Absence; Alienation (social Psychology); Love; Separation; Isolation; Estrangement; Outcasts MARCH SNOW AS MEMORY, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We left our footprints on a night like this Subject(s): Snow; Absence; Separation; Isolation 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: Maureenmaureen! 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be ready for it, unfucked, ever-fucked Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Passion; Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary Last Line: Only this. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MONODY, by OVRO'OM RAISIN Poem Text First Line: She is playing Last Line: I'm the dark ... Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MONOLOGUE AT 3 AM, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better that every fiber crack Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, yet I was with you when your father Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The MOTETS: 6, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had lost hope almost Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MOTETS: 7, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black and white ups and downs of the Subject(s): Grief; Absence; Sorrow; Sadness; Separation; Isolation MOTHER, by LUCY YAKEY WOOLEDGE Poem Text First Line: With smile just a little bit sweeter Last Line: I'll love you wherever you are. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood 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 Full 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 NEARLY A VALEDICTORIAN, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You happened to me. I was happened to Subject(s): Love; Separation 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: ButI'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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Poetry & Poets; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peterkin! No wisdom of our life accords Subject(s): Friendship; Absence; Separation; Isolation PETITION (1), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: O love! I watch for thee Last Line: If love should pass me by. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came such a long way Last Line: Carolyn. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen anniversaries Last Line: Someone had to go Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the secret map the assassins Subject(s): Separation; War; Cities; Urban Life 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same to me are sombre days and gay. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ROSEEN-DHU, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little wild rose of my heart Last Line: Ròseen-dhu! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Hearts; Longing; Love; Roses; Separation; Isolation ROY ORBISON AND JOHN MILTON ARE STILL DREAMING, by APRIL BERNARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know what I mean: in the instant Subject(s): Separation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 Full 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 Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your absence has gone through me Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun Last Line: Just where our lovers die Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs SEPARATION, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ok my child Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation SEPARATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To leave what most we love, in loneliness Last Line: Ah, whose the weight of heavier distress? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in my heart: oh, heart of me, heart of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Longing; Soul; Separation; Isolation SONG, by FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Tis said that absence conquers love Last Line: But thou art not forgot. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation SONG (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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first month of his absence Subject(s): Absence; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Separation; Isolation; Second World War 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which represents you, as my bones do, waits, Subject(s): Home; Absence; Separation; Isolation SONNETS IN IMITATION OF SHAKESPEARE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absence and presence, born of elder night Last Line: Some thoughts on him whose all thoughts dwelt on thee. Subject(s): Absence; Dramatists; Night; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Separation; Isolation; Bedtime STAG'S LEAP, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then the drawing on the label of our favorite red wine Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation 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 STANZAS TO JESSY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mystic thread of life Last Line: They cannot part -- those souls are one. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Separation START OF MARCH, CONNEMARA, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Last Line: Making their mark against green gape-water, then gone Subject(s): Absence; Connemara, Ireland; Separation; Isolation STILL LIFE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After your letter arrived I left the oven on Last Line: All in shadow that I must bathe and dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation STINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The father was a carrier Last Line: Little brothers, I miss you. so. heavy-laden Subject(s): Men; Conduct Of Life; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE COMING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The mansion of my heart, my love Last Line: The happy, happy years! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness THE CONFESSIONAL, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of thee - I thought of thee Last Line: Oh, dearest! Hast thou thought of me? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DARK OF THE MOON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Diana's crescent ship, / by silver chain and lock Last Line: While hermes has his tryst. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE DAY-DREAM; FROM AN EMIGRANT TO HIS ABSENT WIFE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wert here, these tears were tears of light Last Line: I blessed him, tried to laugh, and fell a-weeping! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DEFINITION OF LOVE, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My love is of a birth as rare Last Line: And opposition of the stars. Subject(s): Absence; Fate; Love; Separation; Isolation; Destiny THE DEPARTURE, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beside the glassy evening sea Last Line: And all its strings crushed in the dripping weed. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DEPARTURE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night wears on, the lawns are grey with dew Last Line: And leave him in the wilderness alone? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DESERTER, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: I know not why or whence he came Last Line: The house where faith is dead. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE DIFFERENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some weep because they part Last Line: Because they never parted. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DIVISION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the windows, creaking doors Last Line: And longer than the years! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DREAM GIRL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: With footfall soft as angel's Last Line: Ah! Still the air is warm. Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation THE DYING SISTER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling boy Last Line: Waiting for you! Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Praise; Separation; Isolation; Paradise THE EMIGRANT'S WISH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wish we were hame to our ain folk Last Line: The hames are the hames o' our ain folk Subject(s): Absence;wishes; Separation;isolation THE EVENING OF THE MIND, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the evening of the mind Last Line: And empty spaces in the throat Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE EXILE TO HIS WIFE, by JOSEPH BRENAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me, dearest, I'm lonely without Last Line: Come to the heart that is throbbing to press thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Brennan, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Exiles; Separation; Isolation THE FACE OF THE PRECIPICE IS BLACK WITH LOVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you now Last Line: Scatching a living from the snow Subject(s): Absence; Love; Snow; Separation; Isolation THE FAITHFUL ONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The bird that fills my ears with song Last Line: Remember me and come back home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Fidelity; Separation; Isolation; Faithfulness; Constancy THE FARTHER SHORE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: We gazed far out upon the lonely main Last Line: And guide my vessel o'er this sea to her! Subject(s): Absence; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE GENTLE GHOST OF JOY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while ago you knew not I was I Last Line: When your face I do not see! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Separation; Isolation; Joy; Delight THE GROVE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shake, shake thy shadows down, thy dark / leaves down Last Line: Slept, with the wind close to their bosom caught. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE HAPPY DEAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he for whom, through portals strangely wrought Last Line: As ways trod once through blinding mirk of night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Mortality; Obituaries; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE HEART'S JOURNEY: 5, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were glad tonight: and now you've gone away Last Line: Recall you to these arms that were your home. Variant Title(s): Lovers Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE HILL ROAD, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: Let others take the valley road, a safe and beaten track Last Line: Under the sun I'll take for aye, the steep hill road, with you. Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Hearts; Love; Prairies; Separation; Isolation; Plains THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 17. BEAUTY'S PAGEANT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dawn-pulse at the heart of heaven, or last Last Line: Unborn, that read these words and saw her not. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 40. SEVERED SELVES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two separate divided silences Last Line: Faint as shed flowers, the attenuated dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 46. PARTED LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of this embattled day Last Line: And thy heart rends thee, and thy body endures. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 84. FAREWELL TO THE GLEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet stream-fed glen, why say 'farewell' to thee Last Line: And thy trees whispered what he feared to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us, who part like brothers, part like bards Last Line: Schooner equator, at sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Islands; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Journeys; Trips THE JOURNEY ONWARDS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As slow our ship her foamy track Last Line: Of joy that's left behind us. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE KID (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kid left Subject(s): Children; Separation; Childhood THE KINE OF MY FATHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The kine of my father, they are straying from my keeping Last Line: Bitter is your trouble -- and I am far from you. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE KISSES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When we two parted never a word was spoken. Almost we thought Last Line: How short our kisses seem! Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation THE LADY'S SONNET. TWILIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not why I chose to seem so cold Last Line: "I'll send your answer."" now I've told you all." Subject(s): Absence; Women; Separation; Isolation THE LAMENT OF SELIM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of the bosphorus Last Line: Shall sun itself in azza's light. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE LAST GOOD-BYE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Is often heard Last Line: "a long, a last ""good-bye." Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Separation; Isolation THE LEGACY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She died when I was wild and young Last Line: In the kiss on her ghostly hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE LETTER, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is she writing? Watch her now Last Line: Tis sent from england's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Absence; Letters; Separation; Isolation THE LETTER, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, men in thick green coats came crunching Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE LIFT DESCENDING, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: The lift descending took my love from me Last Line: And all time stopped, though space was still escaping. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE LITTLE COAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's his ragged 'round-a-bout' Last Line: Beckon us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Children; Wandering & Wanderers; Separation; Isolation; Childhood THE LITTLE THINGS, by FRANCIS T. KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: Ah, how I have loved the little best things / of love Last Line: And the soft swelling of your breasts against me when I quieted you to sleep. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOST LAND, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have two daughters Subject(s): Daughters; Ireland; Absence; Irish; Separation; Isolation THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE MAN WHO SAW THE END OF THE JOURNEY, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known anguish, loss and disappointment Last Line: Hand in hand a moment, let us gaze and love thee! Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Love; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE MEETING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She flitted by me on the stair Last Line: A moment since I knew not of her! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE MIST, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun and the dew were so far apart Last Line: Ere the sun had set. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE MISTRESS; A SONG, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An age in her embraces passed [past] Last Line: And make us blessed at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Of His Mistress Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true." Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD HOUSE AND THE APPLETREE, by VIDA B. BUTCHER Poem Text First Line: Somewhat back from the broad highway Last Line: Wrapped in blossoms and memory. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE ONE I LOVE IS GONE AWAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My lefe is faren in a lond Last Line: With trew love a thousandfold Subject(s): Absence;love; Separation;isolation THE OTHER SIDE OF A MIRROR, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I sat before my glass one day Last Line: "that heard me whisper, ""I am she!" Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE PARTING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Subject(s): Absence;hearts;love;youth; Separation;isolation THE PARTING GUEST, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sigh no more for the days that are gone Last Line: But none is permitted to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone. Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers THE PILLOW, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we still travelling? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 55, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The willows grow dark like mist Last Line: No swallow nests allowed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Absence; Chinese Literature; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PRICE OF ABSENCE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: He writes: 'in spite of summer's green Last Line: To court another! Subject(s): Absence; Courtship; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Separation; Isolation; Male-female Relations THE PROBLEM, by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two parted long, and yearning long to meet Alternate Author Name(s): Roge, Mme. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE PROPHETESS, by KATHERINE AGNES HUME Poem Text First Line: I watched you o'er the tea-cloth's cool Last Line: Of old, for still do life and stream seem one. Subject(s): Absence; Shadows; Separation; Isolation THE PULL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the flu goes on, I get thinner and thinner Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Absence; Separation; Isolation THE QUEST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must follow where she beckons through the dim Last Line: I must seek and I may find her in the perfume of a rose. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation THE QUIET KINGDOM, by CARL BUSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a quiet kingdom's strand Last Line: By one who yearneth deep as we. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation THE RECENT PAST, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination Subject(s): Separation THE RETREAT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy those early days! When I / shined in my angel-infancy Last Line: In that state I came return. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Absence; Children; Christianity; Faith; Innocence; Nostalgia; Regret; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Belief; Creed THE RETURN, by LUCIA STEVENS DE MOTTE Poem Text First Line: Now you are gone Last Line: My hushed heart waits for you. Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Spring; Separation; Isolation THE RIVAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Moon; Separation; Isolation THE RIVER-MECHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead - see more at: http://www.Poets.Org/viewmedi Subject(s): Nature; Marriage; Againg; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation THE RIVER-MERCHANT'S WIFE: A LETTER, by LI PO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead Last Line: As far as cho-fu-sa. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Variant Title(s): Cathay: The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Subject(s): Absence; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Men; Teenagers; Separation; Isolation; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE ROCK BESIDE THE SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me not the woods are fair Last Line: My lone rock by the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Absence; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, wad that my time were owre but Last Line: And were what I hae been! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SAILOR'S WIFE, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And are ye sure the news is true? Last Line: When our gudeman's awa'. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Variant Title(s): There's Nae Luck About The House;the Mariner's Wife Subject(s): Absence; Reunions; Separation; Isolation THE SEARCH FOR LEAVEN, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tender, loving maiden Last Line: Often dreaming on the broom. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Jews; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Judaism THE SELF, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I feel so far from you Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SEPARATION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me not what my love shall do or be Last Line: Sad troubled ghosts about their graves doe stray. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE SHIP O' THE FIEND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh! Where hae ye been, my lang-lost lover" Last Line: And sank her in the sea Subject(s): Absence;hell; Separation;isolation THE SIEGE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, when he was away, across the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE 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 nottill thou cleansest me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 82, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Silent he kneels beside his muted dove Last Line: Homeward he turns his wistful wife to greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Passion; Separation; Isolation THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SPEEDING OF THE KING'S SPITE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A king - estranged from his loving queen Last Line: "could have ended so happily!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Courts & Courtiers; Fantasy; Love; Separation; Isolation THE SQUAW'S LAMENT, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: A blood-red ring hung round the moon Last Line: I hear the loon cry every night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Variant Title(s): The Indian Maid's Lament Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Native Americans - Women; Separation; Isolation; Squaws THE STORY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They met each other in the glade Last Line: Alas! Alas! For breaking hearts when lovers rove away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Summer; Separation; Isolation THE STORY AFTER THE STORY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N bubbles to the elbow, on my knees Subject(s): Story-telling; Family Life; Children; Absence; Disappointment; Relatives; Childhood; Separation; Isolation THE STREET, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Who are you, walking the streets with me tonight? Last Line: O god! I had forgotten! The street is between us. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Separation; Isolation THE SYCAMINE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The frail yellow leaves they are falling Last Line: Ye know not where ye tread! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Separation; Isolation; Parting THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 11, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has cast an unwary match Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Separation; Isolation THE TOLLING BELL, by GRANT COCHRAN KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The bell tolled while I slept Last Line: The bell tolled while I slept. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Separation; Isolation THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, sleep Last Line: The touch of a vanished hand! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE VISION, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Softly she comes at the close of day Last Line: Can leave the world so drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation THE VOICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE WANDERER FROM THE FOLD, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few, of all the hearts that loved Last Line: Have both forgotten thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): E.w. To A.g.a. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WANDERERS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out from her doorway peeped the little maid Last Line: Have you forgotten?yet you knew him well. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WAY TO WAIT, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O whether by the lonesome road Last Line: For love that finds a way to come, can find a way to wait! Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Waiting; Separation; Isolation THE WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Linger not long. Home is not home wihtout thee Last Line: "haste, as a skiff, through tempests wide and swelling, / flies to its haven of securest rest!" Subject(s): Absence;love - Marital; Separation;isolation;wedded Love;marriage - Love THE WING OF SEPARATION, by IBN DARRAJ AL-ANDALUSI Poem Text First Line: The wing of separation / bore me away Last Line: (j. B. Trend) Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Darraj Al-qastalli Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE WOE OF IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet was the mavis' song of eld Last Line: And ah! The bitter woe of it! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The room I entered was a dream of this room Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THIS SUPPOSED ALCHEMY, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you took was: an arm, a hand, a face Last Line: It no longer meets Subject(s): Absence; Alchemy & Alchemists; Love; Separation; Isolation THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire distorts. Water objects. Buttery fields Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT, TO MEMORY DEAR, by RUTHVEN JENKYNS Poem Text First Line: Sweetheart, good-by! The fluttering sail Last Line: Though lost to sight, to mem'ry dear. Variant Title(s): Good Bye Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THOUGHTS IN SEPARATION, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never meet; yet we meet day by day Last Line: Thou to thy crucifix, I to my mother. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THREE FRAGMENTS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orion is rising, and the air Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THWARTED, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poet's Biography First Line: Twarted, old friend! We have been baulked again Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 HIS WIFE FAR OFF IN A TIME OF WAR, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you are not among the winter branches Subject(s): Separation; Marital Love 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 Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing impossible as this one time Subject(s): Absence; Longing; Homecoming; Separation; Isolation TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho Last Line: The glory of a dream. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness TO 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I look Subject(s): Evening; Absence; Sunset; Twilight; Separation; Isolation TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 16. A FAREWELL, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all my will, but much against my heart Last Line: With tears of recognition never dry. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation TO YOU, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are little boats Last Line: It is my thought of you. Subject(s): Absence; Memory; Romance; Seashore; Separation; Isolation; Beach; Coast; Shore TO----, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Sunless days and starless nights Last Line: And the starlight of your eyes. Subject(s): Absence; Pain; Separation; Isolation; Suffering; Misery TOMORROW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Our loved ones departed still live with us yet Last Line: As morning breaks forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Complaints; Separation; Isolation; Parting 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 UNDER STARS, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sleep of this night deepens Last Line: By all I touch on the way Subject(s): Separation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Separation; Isolation VISIONS OF NEVER BEING HEARD FROM AGAIN, by REBECCA WOLFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped by to see you but you were not home Subject(s): Absence; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That would be waving and that would be crying Last Line: Have I except it comes from the sun? Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she says margarita she means daiquiri. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Drinks & Drinking; Absence; Wine; Separation; Isolation WHEN I LOVE YOU, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I get on the plane, alone again Subject(s): Air Travel; Love; Absence; Separation; Isolation WHEN TWO ARE PARTED, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When two who love are parted Last Line: Came laterand 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 Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was planting bulbs, my hands deep in the earth Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Separation; Isolation WHILE WATCHING 'YOUNG AND INNOCENT' I THINK OF MY MOTHER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pull down the shades. Those waifs Subject(s): Mothers; Fathers; Absence; Abandonment; Separation; Isolation; Desertion WHITE NOCTURNE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night Last Line: Wait far off in the undisturbing night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 Full 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 Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anne, who are dead and whom I loved in a rather asinine fashion Last Line: Tell you wonderful things Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation WRIT IN WATER, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy night we made the vow Last Line: Has yielded to the first that sought her. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation 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 youat 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 |
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