Though I sit brooding here, with my eyes closed, Yet have I seen the light go suddenly; Though I had shut them fast, to see no light, A sudden wave of darkness, without warning, Broke on their trembling lids, and forced my sight. So when my Love has gone out quietly, And left me here alone, all lost in dreams, I see the shadow of her absence fall Across my vision, that had been too blind To see her body in the light at all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UPON JULIA'S BREASTS by ROBERT HERRICK BILL AND JOE by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES MEDITATIONS OF A HINDU [OR, HINDOO] PRINCE [AND SKEPTIC] by ALFRED COMYNS LYALL SONG OF A SECOND APRIL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO THE NIGHTINGALE by JOHN MILTON TO RICH GIVERS by WALT WHITMAN |