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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ABSENCE AND PRESENCE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON 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
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 is full of song of you which dies
When I, once more, look down within your eyes:
I know not why—not one least syllable
Reaches your ears, from all I long to tell!
Let it be so! For, in your silence I
Perceive you spellbound, too; and therein read
All absent lovely words you ever sigh—
The selfsame words that fail me in my need.
Other Poems of Interest...
AFTER CALLIMACHUS by JOHN HOLLANDER
THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE
CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON
THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN
THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN