| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Arthur Symons. 1865– |
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| 42. In the Wood of Finvara |
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| I HAVE grown tired of sorrow and human tears; | |
| Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, | |
| A naked runner lost in a storm of spears. | |
| I have grown tired of rapture and love's desire; | |
| Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire | 5 |
| Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire. | |
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| I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood; | |
| Here between sea and sea, in the fairy wood, | |
| I have found a delicate, wave-green solitude. | |
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| Here, in the fairy wood, between sea and sea, | 10 |
| I have heard the song of a fairy bird in a tree, | |
| And the peace that is not in the world has flown to me. | |
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