Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Clevedon | | Hallam’s Grave | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | (From In Memoriam)
WHEN on my bed the moonlight falls, | |
| I know that in thy place of rest | |
| By that broad water of the west, | |
| There comes a glory on the walls: | |
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| Thy marble bright in dark appears, | 5 |
| As slowly steals a silver flame | |
| Along the letters of thy name, | |
| And o’er the number of thy years. | |
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| The mystic glory swims away; | |
| From off my bed the moonlight dies; | 10 |
| And closing eaves of wearied eyes | |
| I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray: | |
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| And then I know the mist is drawn | |
| A lucid veil from coast to coast, | |
| And in the chancel like a ghost | 15 |
| Thy tablet glimmers to the dawn. | | | | |
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