| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Dawn-Angels |
| | | Agnes Mary Frances Darmesteter (b. 1857) |
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| ALL night I watched awake for morning, | |
| At last the East grew all aflame, | |
| The birds for welcome sang, or warning, | |
| And with their singing morning came. | |
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| Along the gold-green heavens drifted | 5 |
| Pale wandering souls that shun the light, | |
| Whose cloudy pinions, torn and rifted, | |
| Had beat the bars of Heaven all night. | |
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| These clustered round the moon, but higher | |
| A troop of shining spirits went, | 10 |
| Who were not made of wind or fire, | |
| But some divine dream-element. | |
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| Some held the Light, while those remaining | |
| Shook out their harvest-colored wings, | |
| A faint unusual music raining, | 15 |
| (Whose sound was Light) on earthly things. | |
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| They sang, and as a mighty river | |
| Their voices washed the night away, | |
| From East to West ran one white shiver, | |
| And waxen strong their song was Day. | 20 |
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