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

Gone

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)

ABOUT the little chambers of my heart

Friends have been coming—going—many a year.

The doors stand open there.

Some, lightly stepping, enter; some depart.

Freely they come and freely go, at will.

The walls give back their laughter; all day long

They fill the house with song.

One door alone is shut, one chamber still.