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Poem by Amy Lowell


Absence


My cup is empty to-night,
Cold and dry are its sides,
Chilled by the wind from the open window.
Empty and void, it sparkles white in the moonlight.
The room is filled with the strange scent
Of wistaria blossoms.
They sway in the moon’s radiance
And tap against the wall.
But the cup of my heart is still,
And cold, and empty.
When you come, it brims
Red and trembling with blood,
Heart’s blood for your drinking;
To fill your mouth with love
And the bitter-sweet taste of a soul.



Amy Lowell


Amy Lowell's other poems:
  1. The Coal Picker
  2. Crowned
  3. Petals
  4. Late September
  5. A Tale of Starvation


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Matthew Arnold Absence ("IN THIS fair stranger’s eyes of grey")
  • Charlotte Mew Absence ("Sometimes I know the way")
  • Robert Bridges Absence ("When my love was away")
  • William Bowles Absence ("There is strange music in the stirring wind")
  • Ella Wilcox Absence ("After you went away, our lovely room")
  • Claude McKay Absence ("Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool")
  • Mary Robinson Absence ("WHEN from the craggy mountain’s pathless steep")
  • Capel Lofft Absence ("I love: and day by day, as absent, pine")

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