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Absences Lyrics by Philip Larkin

Collected Poems

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Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs
Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows
Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise
A wave drops like a wall: another follows
Wilting and scrambling, tirelessly at play
Where there are no ships and no shallows

Above the sea, the yet more shoreless day
Riddled by wind, trails lit-up galleries:
They shift to giant ribbing, sift away

Such attics cleared of me! Such absences!

About “Absences” by Philip Larkin

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"Absences" appears on "Collected Poems".

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