| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Love in Exile (Songs)
II. “I was again beside My Love” | | By Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
| | | I WAS again beside my Love in dream: | |
| Earth was so beautiful, the moon was shining; | |
| The muffled voice of many a cataract stream | |
| Came like a love-song, as, with arms entwining, | |
| Our hearts were mixed in unison supreme. | 5 |
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| The wind lay spell-bound in each pillared pine, | |
| The tasselled larches had no sound or motion, | |
| As my whole life was sinking into thine— | |
| Sinking into a deep, unfathomed ocean | |
| Of infinite love—uncircumscribed, divine. | 10 |
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| Night held her breath, it seemed, with all her stars: | |
| Eternal eyes that watched in mute compassion | |
| Our little lives o’erleap their mortal bars, | |
| Fused in the fulness of immortal passion, | |
| A passion as immortal as the stars. | 15 |
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| There was no longer any thee or me; | |
| No sense of self, no wish or incompleteness; | |
| The moment, rounded to Eternity, | |
| Annihilated time’s destructive fleetness: | |
| For all but love itself had ceased to be. | 20 | | | |
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