The night’s long hours still find me thinking
Of thee, thee, only thee.
When friends are met, and goblets crown’d,
And smiles are near, that once enchanted,
Unreach’d by all that sunshine round,
My soul, like some dark spot, is haunted
By thee, thee, only thee.
A stanza used by Wordsworth in Stray Pleasures (iv. 12) corresponds to a a2 b3 c c d d2 b3.
Two stanzas used by M. Arnold correspond to the formulas a a2 b2 c5 d4 c3 d4 b2 (a a printed as one line) in A Question (p. 44), and a a3 b5 c c3 d b d3 in The World and the Quietist (p. 46).