| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Forest Glade |
| | | Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–79) |
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| AS one dark morn I trod a forest glade, | |
| A sunbeam enter’d at the further end, | |
| And ran to meet me thro’ the yielding shade— | |
| As one, who in the distance sees a friend, | |
| And, smiling, hurries to him; but mine eyes, | 5 |
| Bewilder’d by the change from dark to bright, | |
| Receiv’d the greeting with a quick surprise | |
| At first, and then with tears of pure delight; | |
| For sad my thoughts had been—the tempest’s wrath | |
| Had gloom’d the night, and made the morrow gray; | 10 |
| That heavenly guidance humble sorrow hath, | |
| Had turn’d my feet into that forest-way, | |
| Just when His morning light came down the path, | |
| Among the lonely woods at early day. | |
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