J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)Gone
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Friends have been coming—going—many a year.
The doors stand open there.
Some, lightly stepping, enter; some depart.
The walls give back their laughter; all day long
They fill the house with song.
One door alone is shut, one chamber still.