This chapter situates the poets' collections from Long Ago (1889) through Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908) within late-nineteenth-century ideas about lyric as simultaneously sung and printed, private and public, enclosed and open. Departing from a 1906 diary entry proclaiming the draw of their 'lyric bedrooms', this chapter considers how Michael Field write lyric poems that negotiate between enclosed indoor space and outdoor space, between the personal and the poetic present and past, and between states of sleep and consciousness, between poetry idealised as oral and aural while realised as printed and visual. Michael Field’s poetry collections present a palimpsest of the past and present, both of their personal, domestic lives and of the newly consolidated genre of lyric poetry in the fin de siècle.