Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Edith and HaroldArthur Gray Butler (18311909)
I
I know it will increase the pain;
’Tis torture to a wounded heart;
Yet, O! to see him once again.
And other arms about him twine,
And tho’ another reign in bliss
In that true heart that once was mine;
I cry it blindly in my pain,
I know it will not bring relief,
Yet O! to see him once again.