| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| | | George Macdonald (1824–1905) |
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| I DREAM’D that I woke from a dream, | |
| And the house was full of light; | |
| At the window two angel Sorrows | |
| Held back the curtains of night. | |
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| The door was wide, and the house | 5 |
| Was full of the morning wind; | |
| At the door two armed warders | |
| Stood silent, with faces blind. | |
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| I ran to the open door, | |
| For the wind of the world was sweet; | 10 |
| The warders with crossing weapons | |
| Turn’d back my issuing feet. | |
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| I ran to the shining windows— | |
| There the winged Sorrows stood; | |
| Silent they held the curtains, | 15 |
| And the light fell through in a flood. | |
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| I clomb to the highest window— | |
| Ah! there, with shadow’d brow, | |
| Stood one lonely radiant Sorrow, | |
| And that, my love, was thou. | 20 |
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