Absence
- "Absence", a poem by Richard Aldington
- "Absence", a poem by Matthew Arnold
- "Absence", a sonnet by Helena Jane Coleman
- "Absence", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- "Absence", a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon "I will not say, I fear your absent one"
- "Absence", a poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon "Oh! never can we feel how dear"
- "Absence", a poem by Amy Lowell
- "Absence", a sonnet (Sonnet 57) by William Shakespeare