| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | At Her Window | | By Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
| | | BEATING Heart! we come again | |
| Where my Love reposes: | |
| This is Mabel’s window-pane; | |
| These are Mabel’s roses. | |
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| Is she nested? Does she kneel | 5 |
| In the twilight stilly, | |
| Lily clad from throat to heel, | |
| She, my virgin Lily? | |
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| Soon the wan, the wistful stars, | |
| Fading, will forsake her; | 10 |
| Elves of light, on beamy bars, | |
| Whisper then, and wake her. | |
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| Let this friendly pebble plead | |
| At her flowery grating; | |
| If she hear me will she heed? | 15 |
| Mabel, I am waiting! | |
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| Mabel will be deck’d anon, | |
| Zoned in bride’s apparel; | |
| Happy zone! O hark to yon | |
| Passion-shaken carol! | 20 |
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| Sing thy song, thou trancèd thrush, | |
| Pipe thy best, thy clearest;— | |
| Hush, her lattice moves, O hush— | |
| Dearest Mabel!—dearest … | | | | |
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