Love
The Torment of Absence
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Love
WHAT a tedious day is past !
Loving, thinking, wishing, weeping :
Gods ! if this be not the last.
Take a life not worth my keeping.
Love, ye Gods, is Life alone !
In the length is little pleasure :
Be but ev'ry day Our-Own,
We shall ne'er complain of measure.
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MLA
Prior, Matthew. “The Torment of Absence.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/193/.
Chicago
Prior, Matthew. “The Torment of Absence.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/193/.
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