| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Place in Thy Memory |
| | | Gerald Griffin (1803–40) |
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| A PLACE in thy memory, Dearest! | |
| Is all that I claim: | |
| To pause and look back when thou hearest | |
| The sound of my name. | |
| Another may woo thee, nearer; | 5 |
| Another may win and wear; | |
| I care not though he be dearer, | |
| If I am remember’d there. | |
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| Remember me, not as a lover | |
| Whose hope was cross’d, | 10 |
| Whose bosom can never recover | |
| The light it hath lost! | |
| As the young bride remembers the mother | |
| She loves, though she never may see, | |
| As a sister remembers a brother, | 15 |
| O Dearest, remember me! | |
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| Could I be thy true lover, Dearest! | |
| Couldst thou smile on me, | |
| I would be the fondest and dearest | |
| That ever lov’d thee: | 20 |
| But a cloud on my pathway is glooming | |
| That never must burst upon thine; | |
| And heaven, that made thee all blooming, | |
| Ne’er made thee to wither on mine. | |
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| Remember me then! O remember | 25 |
| My calm light love, | |
| Though bleak as the blasts of November | |
| My life may prove! | |
| That life will, though lonely, be sweet | |
| If its brightest enjoyment should be | 30 |
| A smile and kind word when we meet | |
| And a place in thy memory. | |
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