| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Dover Cliff |
| | | F. Wyville Home (b. 1851) |
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| LAST April, when the winds had lost their chill, | |
| I lay down dreamily upon the verge | |
| Of Shakespeare’s Cliff, where sea and sea-wind scourge | |
| The eternal barrier that withstands them still. | |
| I heard the billows break beneath and fill | 5 |
| The wide air with the thunder of the surge; | |
| And near my cheek, half fearful to emerge, | |
| A violet grew upon the grassy hill. | |
| There while I lay, Poet, I dreamed of thee. | |
| Thy very voice, whose matchless music yet | 10 |
| O’ermasters all the world’s, surrounded me, | |
| Singing, and in the sound of it there met | |
| With all the might and passion of the sea | |
| The utter sweetness of the violet. | |
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