| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Jungfrau’s Cry |
| | | Stopford Augustus Brooke (b. 1832) |
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| I, VIRGIN of the Snows, have liv’d | |
| Uncounted years apart; | |
| Mated with Sunlight, Stars and Heaven, | |
| But I am cold at heart. | |
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| High mates! Ye teach me purity, | 5 |
| And lonely thought and truth; | |
| But I have never liv’d, and yet | |
| I have eternal youth. | |
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| Blow, tropic winds, and warm rains, fall, | |
| And melt my snowy crest; | 10 |
| Let soft woods clothe my shoulders fair, | |
| Deep grass lie on my breast. | |
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| And let me feed a thousand herds, | |
| And hear the tinkling bells, | |
| Till the brown châlets cluster close | 15 |
| In all my stream-fed dells. | |
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| So may I hear the sweep of scythes, | |
| And beating of the flails, | |
| My maidens singing as they spin, | |
| And the voice of nightingales. | 20 |
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| And little children in their joy, | |
| And, where my violets hide, | |
| Soft interchange of lovers’ vows, | |
| Sweet hymns at eventide. | |
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| Alas! cold Sunlight, Stars and Heaven, | 25 |
| My high companions, call. | |
| The ice-clad life is pure and stern: | |
| I am weary of it all. | |
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