"I, for thou callest such": Christina Rossetti's heavenly intimacy -- "Appraise love and divide": measuring love in Augusta Webster's Mother and daughter -- The strain of sympathy: A. Mary F. Robinson, the new arcadia and Vernon Lee -- "Be loved through thoughts of mine": Alice Meynell's intimate distance -- "So I can wait and sing": Dollie Radford's poetics of waiting -- Conclusion: Mary E. Coleridge and the second person plural.