| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | On the Way to Kew | | By William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |
| | | ON the way to Kew, | |
| By the river old and gray, | |
| Where in the Long Ago | |
| We laugh’d and loiter’d so, | |
| I met a ghost to-day, | 5 |
| A ghost that told of you— | |
| A ghost of low replies | |
| And sweet inscrutable eyes | |
| Coming up from Richmond | |
| As you used to do. | 10 |
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| By the river old and gray, | |
| The enchanted Long Ago | |
| Murmur’d and smiled anew. | |
| On the way to Kew, | |
| March had the laugh of May, | 15 |
| The bare boughs look’d aglow, | |
| And old immortal words | |
| Sang in my breast like birds, | |
| Coming up from Richmond | |
| As I used with you. | 20 |
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| With the life of Long Ago | |
| Lived my thought of you. | |
| By the river old and gray | |
| Flowing his appointed way | |
| As I watch’d I knew | 25 |
| What is so good to know: | |
| Not in vain, not in vain, | |
| I shall look for you again | |
| Coming up from Richmond | |
| On the way to Kew. | 30 | | | |
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