Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Walter Savage Landor. 17751864567. 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— | 5 |
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 | 10 |
Voices are harsher than they were, | |
And tears are longer ere they dry. |