| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| | | Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) |
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| I SEE thee pine like her in golden story | |
| Who, in her prison, woke and saw, one day, | |
| The gates thrown open—saw the sunbeams play, | |
| With only a web ’tween her and summer’s glory; | |
| Who, when that web—so frail, so transitory | 5 |
| It broke before her breath—had fallen away, | |
| Saw other webs and others rise for aye | |
| Which kept her prison’d till her hair was hoary. | |
| These songs half-sung that yet were all-divine— | |
| That woke Romance, the queen, to reign afresh— | 10 |
| Had been but preludes from that lyre of thine, | |
| Could thy rare spirit’s wings have pierced the mesh | |
| Spun by the wizard who compels the flesh, | |
| But lets the poet see how heav’n can shine. | |
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