Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907). Gone. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Gone

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)


ABOUT the little chambers of my heart
Friends have been coming—going—many a year.
The doors stand open there.
Some, lightly stepping, enter; some depart.

Freely they come and freely go, at will.	5
The walls give back their laughter; all day long
They fill the house with song.
One door alone is shut, one chamber still.