| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| “If She Be Made of White and Red” |
| | | Herbert P. Horne (b. 1864) |
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| IF she be made of white and red, | |
| As all transcendent beauty shows; | |
| If heaven be blue above her head, | |
| And earth be golden, as she goes: | |
| Nay, then thy deftest words restrain; | 5 |
| Tell not that beauty, it is vain. | |
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| If she be filled with love and scorn, | |
| As all divinest natures are; | |
| If ’twixt her lips such words are born, | |
| As can but Heaven or Hell confer: | 10 |
| Bid Love be still, nor ever speak, | |
| Lest he his own rejection seek. | |
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