| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Romance |
| | | Andrew Lang (1844–1912) |
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| MY Love dwelt in a Northern land. | |
| A gray tower in a forest green | |
| Was hers, and far on either hand | |
| The long wash of the waves was seen, | |
| And leagues on leagues of yellow sand, | 5 |
| The woven forest boughs between! | |
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| And through the silver Northern night | |
| The sunset slowly died away, | |
| And herds of strange deer, lily-white, | |
| Stole forth among the branches gray; | 10 |
| About the coming of the light, | |
| They fled like ghosts before the day! | |
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| I know not if the forest green | |
| Still girdles round that castle gray; | |
| I know not if the boughs between | 15 |
| The white deer vanish ere the day; | |
| Above my Love the grass is green, | |
| My heart is colder than the clay! | |
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