Walter Savage Landor

Here you will find the Poem Absence of poet Walter Savage Landor

Absence

HERE, ever since you went abroad, 
If there be change no change I see: 
I only walk our wonted road, 
The road is only walk'd by me. 

Yes; I forgot; a change there is- 
Was it of that you bade me tell? 
I catch at times, at times I miss 
The sight, the tone, I know so well. 

Only two months since you stood here? 
Two shortest months? Then tell me why 
Voices are harsher than they were, 
And tears are longer ere they dry.