Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.

A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
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A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.

For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present, concerning read more

For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged
already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so
done this deed, . . .

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

I dote on his very absence.

I dote on his very absence.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.