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Poem by Claude McKay


Absence


Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool, 
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool. 

Your kisses fell sharp on my flesh like dawn-dews from the limb, 
Of a fruit-filled lemon tree when the day is young and dim. 

But a silence vasty-deep, oh deeper than all these ties 
Now, through the menacing miles, brooding between us lies. 

And more than the songs I sing, I await your written word, 
To stir my fluent blood as never your presence stirred.



Claude McKay


Claude McKay's other poems:
  1. On a Primitive Canoe
  2. The White City
  3. When Dawn Comes to the City
  4. Birds of Prey
  5. French Leave


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")
  • Amy Lowell Absence ("My cup is empty to-night")
  • Ella Wilcox Absence ("After you went away, our lovely room")
  • 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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