| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs and Ballads.
III. Dreams | | By Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) |
| | | SURELY I heard a voice—surely my name | |
| Was breathed in tones familiar to my heart! | |
| I listened—and the low wind stealing came, | |
| In darkness and in silence to depart. | |
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| Surely I saw a form, a proud bright form, | 5 |
| Standing beside my couch! I raised mine eyes: | |
| ’Twas but a dim cloud, herald of a storm, | |
| That floated through the grey and twilight skies. | |
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| Surely the brightness of the summer hour | |
| Hath suddenly burst upon the circling gloom! | 10 |
| I dream; ’twas but the perfume of a flower, | |
| Which the breeze wafted through the silent room. | |
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| Surely a hand clasped mine with greetings fond! | |
| A name is murmured by my lips with pain; | |
| Woe for that sound—woe for love’s broken bond. | 15 |
| I start—I wake—I am alone again! | | | | |
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