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Poem by Robert Seymour Bridges


Absence


When my love was away,
Full three days were not sped,
I caught my fancy astray
Thinking if she were dead,

And I alone, alone:
It seem'd in my misery
In all the world was none
Ever so lone as I.

I wept; but it did not shame
Nor comfort my heart: away
I rode as I might, and came
To my love at close of day.

The sight of her still'd my fears,
My fairest-hearted love:
And yet in her eyes were tears:
Which when I question'd of,

'O now thou art come,' she cried,
''Tis fled: but I thought to-day
I never could here abide,
If thou wert longer away.' 



Robert Seymour Bridges


Robert Seymour Bridges's other poems:
  1. Shorter Poems. Book II. 4. Wooing
  2. Shorter Poems. Book V. 1. The Winnowers
  3. Shorter Poems. Book III. 16. Song (I love my lady’s eyes)
  4. Shorter Poems. Book IV. 25. “Say Who Is This with Silvered Hair”
  5. Shorter Poems. Book II. 1. “Will Love Again Awake”


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")
  • William Bowles Absence ("There is strange music in the stirring wind")
  • Amy Lowell Absence ("My cup is empty to-night")
  • 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")
  • Ella Wilcox Absence ("After you went away, our lovely room")
  • Capel Lofft Absence ("I love: and day by day, as absent, pine")
  • Bessie Parkes Absence ("I AM not lonely, O my Love")

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