| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Home in War-Time |
| | | Sydney Dobell (1824–74) |
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| SHE turn’d the fair page with her fairer hand— | |
| More fair and frail than it was wont to be— | |
| O’er each remember’d thing he lov’d to see | |
| She linger’d, and as with a fairy’s wand | |
| Enchanted it to order. Oft she fann’d | 5 |
| New motes into the sun; and as a bee | |
| Sings thro’ a brake of bells, so murmur’d she, | |
| And so her patient love did understand | |
| The reliquary room. Upon the sill | |
| She fed his favorite bird. “Ah, Robin, sing! | 10 |
| He loves thee.” Then she touches a sweet string | |
| Of soft recall, and towards the Eastern hill | |
| Smiles all her soul—for him who cannot hear | |
| The raven croaking at his carrion ear. | |
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