546. Absence. Walter Savage Landor. 1909-14. English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics

English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

546. Absence

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


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.