I Shall Miss You Most...
I shall miss you most When twilight brings the risising mist To hang upon the reeds And as the evening darkens cold With Mallards' cries across the marsh
The speaker is thinking about someone who is absent, and says the sharpest moment of missing them will come at a particular time of day: dusk by a marsh. The poem never tells us who the person is or why they are gone. All we get is the feeling, and the place where it hits hardest.
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