Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems
Stolen Waters (1862), st. 1
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
“For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
On a bed of daffodil sky,
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
To faint in his light, and to die.”
Part I, section xxii, stanza 2
Maud; A Monodrama (1855)
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