Stephen Phillips (1868-1915). The Apparition. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

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

The Apparition

By Stephen Phillips (1868–1915)


MY dead Love came to me, and said:
‘God gives me one hour’s rest
To spend upon the earth with thee:
How shall we spend it best?’

‘Why, as of old,’ I said, and so	5
We quarrell’d as of old.
But when I turn’d to make my peace
That one short hour was told.