| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1217. Love’s Rosary |
| | | By George Edward Woodberry |
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| SWEET names, the rosary of my evening prayer, | |
| Told on my lips like kisses of good-night | |
| To friends who go a little from my sight, | |
| And some through distant years shine clear and fair!— | |
| So this dear burden that I daily bear | 5 |
| Mighty God taketh, and doth loose me quite; | |
| And soft I sink in slumbers pure and light | |
| With thoughts of human love and heavenly care; | |
| But when I mark how into shadow slips | |
| My manhood’s prime, and weep fast-passing friends, | 10 |
| And heaven’s riches making poor my lips, | |
| And think how in the dust love’s labor ends, | |
| Then, where the cluster of my hearth-stone shone, | |
| “Bid me not live,” I sigh, “till all be gone.” | |
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