| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Dream-Tryst |
| | | Francis Thompson (1859–1907) |
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| THE BREATHS of kissing night and day | |
| Were mingled in the eastern Heaven: | |
| Throbbing with unheard melody | |
| Shook Lyra all its star-chord seven: | |
| When dusk shrunk cold, and light trod shy, | 5 |
| And dawn’s gray eyes were troubled gray; | |
| And souls went palely up the sky, | |
| And mine to Lucidé. | |
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| There was no change in her sweet eyes | |
| Since last I saw those sweet eyes shine; | 10 |
| There was no change in her deep heart | |
| Since last that deep heart knocked at mine. | |
| Her eyes were clear, her eyes were Hope’s, | |
| Wherein did ever come and go | |
| The sparkle of the fountain-drops | 15 |
| From her sweet soul below. | |
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| The chambers in the house of dreams | |
| Are fed with so divine an air | |
| That Time’s hoar wings grow young therein, | |
| And they who walk there are most fair. | 20 |
| I joyed for me, I joyed for her, | |
| Who with the Past meet girt about: | |
| Where our last kiss still warms the air, | |
| Nor can her eyes go out. | |
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