| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| On a Young Poetess’s Grave |
| | | Cosmo Monkhouse (b. 1840) |
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| UNDER her gentle seeing, | |
| In her delicate little hand, | |
| They placed the Book of Being, | |
| To read and understand. | |
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| The Book was mighty and olden, | 5 |
| Yea, worn and eaten with age; | |
| Though the letters look’d great and golden, | |
| She could not read a page. | |
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| The letters flutter’d before her, | |
| And all look’d sweetly wild: | 10 |
| Death saw her, and bent o’er her, | |
| As she pouted her lips and smil’d. | |
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| And weary a little with tracing | |
| The Book, she look’d aside, | |
| And lightly smiling, and placing | 15 |
| A Flower in its leaves, she died. | |
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| She died, but her sweetness fled not, | |
| As fly the things of power,— | |
| For the Book wherein she read not | |
| Is the sweeter for the Flower. | 20 |
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