Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Nocturne

Richard Garnett (1835–1906)

KEEN winds of cloud and vaporous drift

Disrobe yon star, as ghosts that lift

A snowy curtain from its place,

To scan a pillow’d beauty’s face.

They see her slumbering splendours lie

Bedded on blue unfathom’d sky.

And swoon for love and deep delight,

And stillness falls on all the night.