Love
Absent Is She Thou Lovest? Be It So
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Absent is she thou lovest? be it so;
Yet there is what should drive away thy woe
And make the night less gloomy than the day.
Absent she may be; yet her love appears
Close by; and through the labyrinth of the ears
Her voice's clue to the prone heart makes way.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Absent Is She Thou Lovest? Be It So.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/426/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Absent Is She Thou Lovest? Be It So.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/426/.
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