{
 "id": "george-macdonald/longing-2",
 "title": "Longing",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "George MacDonald",
 "poet_slug": "george-macdonald",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "A Hidden Life and Other Poems",
 "book_slug": "a-hidden-life-and-other-poems",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": null,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1864,
  "venue": "A Hidden Life and Other Poems (1864)",
  "note": "Taken from the 1864 volume A Hidden Life and Other Poems, which is the printing this text derives from rather than the poem's first appearance: the same poems stand at the same page numbers in MacDonald's Poems (London, 1857), so an earlier printing is known and 1864 is not it. Whether the 1857 volume or a periodical printed the poem first has not been established here.",
  "uncertain": true,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_N7tfAAAAMAAJ",
   "https://archive.org/details/hiddenlifeandoth00macduoft",
   "https://archive.org/metadata/hiddenlifeandoth00macduoft"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/george-macdonald_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1953",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8949",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9543",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9984",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10578",
   "https://archive.org/details/bookofstrifeinfo00macd",
   "https://archive.org/details/discipleandothe02macdgoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/hiddenlifeandoth00macduoft",
   "https://archive.org/details/discipleandothe02macdgoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/rampolli00macd",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102955776",
   "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011821572"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 24,
  "n_stanzas": 6,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 38,
  "max_indent": 1
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "Away from the city’s herds!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Away from the noisy street!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Away from the storm of words,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Where hateful and hating meet!",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Away from the vapour grey,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That like a boding of ill",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "Is blotting the morning gay,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And gathers and darkens still!",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Away from the stupid book!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "For, like the fog’s weary rest,",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "With anger dull it fills each nook",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of my aching and misty breast.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Over some shining shore,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "There hangeth a space of blue;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "A parting ’mid thin clouds hoar",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Where the sunlight is falling through.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The glad waves are kissing the shore",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Rejoice, and tell it for ever;",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The boat glides on, while its oar",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Is flashing out of the river.",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Oh to be there with thee!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thou and I only, my love!",
    "indent": 1
   },
   {
    "text": "The sparkling, sands and the sea!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And the sunshine of God above!",
    "indent": 1
   }
  ]
 ]
}