Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
NocturneRichard Garnett (18351906)
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Disrobe yon star, as ghosts that lift
A snowy curtain from its place,
To scan a pillow’d beauty’s face.
Bedded on blue unfathom’d sky.
And swoon for love and deep delight,
And stillness falls on all the night.