| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| From “The House of Life: a Sonnet-Sequence.” V. Without Her |
| | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82) |
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| WHAT of her glass without her? The blank gray | |
| There where the pool is blind of the moon’s face. | |
| Her dress without her? The toss’d empty space | |
| Of cloud-rack whence the moon has pass’d away. | |
| Her paths without her? Day’s appointed sway | 5 |
| Usurp’d by desolate night. Her pillow’d place | |
| Without her? Tears, ah me! for love’s good grace, | |
| And cold forgetfulness of night or day. | |
| What of the heart without her? Nay, poor heart, | |
| Of thee what word remains ere speech be still? | 10 |
| A wayfarer by barren ways and chill, | |
| Steep ways and weary, without her thou art, | |
| Where the long cloud, the long wood’s counterpart, | |
| Sheds doubled darkness up the laboring hill. | |
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