| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Lake Memory |
| | | William Wilfred Campbell (1861–1918) |
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| THE LAKE comes throbbing in with voice of pain | |
| Across these flats, athwart the sunset’s glow, | |
| I see her face, I know her voice again, | |
| Her lips, her breath, O God, as long ago. | |
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| To live the sweet past over I would fain, | 5 |
| As lives the day in the red sunset’s fire, | |
| That all these wild, wan marshlands now would stain, | |
| With the dawn’s memories, loves and flushed desire. | |
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| I call her back across the vanished years, | |
| Nor vain—a white-armed phantom fills her place; | 10 |
| Its eyes the wind-blown sunset fires, its tears | |
| This rain of spray that blows about my face. | |
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