Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD


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First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen
Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well."
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


WIDE-STRETCHING plains, and mountain-peaks farseen,
Sky, air, and winds -- and little ripply waves
Of springs, and winding banks the slow stream laves,
Tall forests dark, and low-cut coppice green,

Groves, vine-clad hills, and blosmy vales between,
Buds, flowers, dew-laden grass, deep mossy caves --
All you that heard my songs' low sweet sad staves --
Waters of Loir, woods of my loved Gastine,

Since grief of parting wrung me with such pains
I could not say "Farewell" to her, alas!
Whose I am, near or far, where'er I dwell,

I beg of you, sky, air, winds, mountains, plains,
Woods, coppice, river-banks, caves, springs, flowers, grass,
Hills, valleys, groves, say for me, "Fare thee well."





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