| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 256. Good Friday in my Heart |
| By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907) |
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| GOOD FRIDAY in my heart! Fear and affright! | |
| My thoughts are the Disciples when they fled, | |
| My words the words that priest and soldier said, | |
| My deed the spear to desecrate the dead. | |
| And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night. | 5 |
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| Then Easter in my heart sends up the sun. | |
| My thoughts are Mary, when she turned to see. | |
| My words are Peter, answering, ‘Lov’st thou Me?’ | |
| My deeds are all Thine own drawn close to Thee, | |
| And night and day, since Thou dost rise, are one. | 10 |
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