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 | ||||||||
ABSENCE is full of song of you which dies When I, once more, look down within your eyes: I know not whynot 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 |
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