| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| To the Spirit of Poetry |
| | | Philip Bourke Marston (1850–87) |
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| ALL things are changed save thee,—thou art the same, | |
| Only perchance more dear, as one friend grows | |
| When other friends have turn’d away. Who knows | |
| With what strange joy thou didst my life inflame | |
| Before I took upon my lips the name | 5 |
| Which vows me to thy service? Come thou close; | |
| For to thy feet to-day my being flows, | |
| As when, a boy, for comforting I came. | |
| Thou, whose transfiguring touch makes speech divine,— | |
| Whose eyes are deeper than deep seas or skies,— | 10 |
| Warm with thy fire this heart, these lips of mine, | |
| Lighten the darkness with thy luminous eyes, | |
| Till all the quivering air about me shine, | |
| And I have gain’d my spirit’s Paradise. | |
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