Thomas MacDonagh (Томас Макдона)

In Absence

Last night I read your letters once again--
Read till the dawn filled all my room with grey;
Then quenched my light and put the leaves away,
And prayed for sleep to ease my heart's great pain.
But ah! that poignant tenderness made vain
My hope of rest -- I could not sleep or pray
For thought of you, and the slow, broadening day
Held me there prisoner of my throbbing brain.

Yet I did sleep before the silence broke,
And dream, but not of you -- the old dreams rife
With duties which would bind me to the yoke
Of my old futile, lone, reluctant life:
I stretched my hands for help in the vain strife,
And grasped these leaves, and to this pain awoke. 

1. The Philistine
2. The Stars Stand up in the Air
3. Dublin Tramcars
4. Averil
5. Of the Man of My First Play

Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер) In Absence ("The storm that snapped our fate's one ship in twain")

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