| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Greeting |
| | | Philip Bourke Marston (1850–87) |
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| RISE up, my song! stretch forth thy wings and fly | |
| With no delaying, over shore and deep! | |
| Be with my lady when she wakes from sleep; | |
| Touch her with kisses softly on each eye; | |
| And say, before she puts her dreaming by: | 5 |
| “Within the palaces of slumber keep | |
| One little niche wherein sometimes to weep | |
| For one who vainly toils till he shall die!” | |
| Yet say again, a sweeter thing than this: | |
| “His life is wasted by his love for thee.” | 10 |
| Then, looking o’er the fields of memory, | |
| She ’ll find perchance, o’ergrown with grief and bliss, | |
| Some flower of recollection, pale and fair, | |
| That she, through pity, for a day may wear. | |
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