Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Arthur Symons 18651945To a Portrait
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Watches me from the shelf—
Ghost of old love, and half
Ghost of myself!
Watch me and love me yet—
Sad home of memories,
Her waiting eyes!
Return: though all the pain
Of all once loved, long lost,
Come back again.
Alas, too late I cry.
We are two ghosts that had their chance to live,
And lost it, she and I.