Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | New Love, New Life | By Amy Levy (18611889) |
| 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 unbarrd 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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