| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Walter Savage Landor. 1775–1864 |
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| 567. Absence |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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