| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Lyrics (1891)
I. The Dead Friend | | By A. Mary F. Robinson-Darmesteter (1857–1944) |
| | | WHEN you were alive, at least, | |
| There were days I never met you. | |
| In the study, at the feast, | |
| By the hearth, I could forget you. | |
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| Moods there were of many days | 5 |
| When, methinks, I did not mind you. | |
| Now, oh now, in any place | |
| Wheresoe’er I go, I find you! | |
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| You … but how profoundly changed, | |
| O you dear-belov’d dead woman! | 10 |
| Made mysterious and estranged, | |
| All-pervading, superhuman. | |
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| Ah! to meet you as of yore, | |
| Kind, alert, and quick to laughter: | |
| You, the friend I loved Before; | 15 |
| Not this tragic friend of After. | | | | |
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