| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Song |
| | | Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901) |
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| THE POURING music, soft and strong, | |
| Some God within her soul has lit, | |
| Her face is rosy with the song | |
| And her gray eyes are sweet with it. | |
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| A woman so with singing fir’d, | 5 |
| Has earth a lovelier sight than this? | |
| Oh, he that look’d had soon desir’d | |
| Those lips to fasten with a kiss. | |
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| But let not him that race begin | |
| Who seeks not toward its utmost goal; | 10 |
| Give me an hour for drinking in | |
| Her fragrant and her early soul. | |
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| To happier hearts I leave the rest, | |
| Who less and more than I shall know, | |
| For me, world-weary, it is best | 15 |
| To listen for an hour and go: | |
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| To lift her hand, and press, and part, | |
| And think upon her long and long, | |
| And bear for ever in my heart | |
| The tender traces of a song. | 20 |
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