| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Sunken Gold |
| | | Eugene Lee-Hamilton (b. 1845) |
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| IN dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships; | |
| And gold doubloons, that from the drowned hand fell, | |
| Lie nestled in the ocean-flower’s bell | |
| With love’s old gifts, once kissed by long-drowned lips; | |
| And round some wrought gold cup the sea-grass whips, | 5 |
| And hides lost pearls, near pearls still in their shell, | |
| Where sea-weed forests fill each ocean dell | |
| And seek dim sunlight with their restless tips. | |
| So lie the wasted gifts, the long-lost hopes | |
| Beneath the now hushed surface of myself, | 10 |
| In lonelier depths than where the diver gropes; | |
| They lie deep, deep; but I at times behold | |
| In doubtful glimpses, on some reefy shelf, | |
| The gleam of irrecoverable gold. | |
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