| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | New Love, New Life | | By Amy Levy (1861–1889) |
| | I SHE, who so long has lain | |
| Stone-stiff with folded wings, | |
| Within my heart again | |
| The brown bird wakes and sings. | |
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| Brown nightingale, whose strain | 5 |
| Is heard by day, by night, | |
| She sings of joy and pain, | |
| Of sorrow and delight. | |
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II ’Tis true,—in other days | |
| Have I unbarr’d the door; | 10 |
| He knows the walks and ways— | |
| Love has been here before. | |
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| Love blest and love accurst | |
| Was here in days long past; | |
| This time is not the first, | 15 |
| But this time is the last. | | | | |
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