| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1654. A Song of Arno |
| | | By Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson |
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| IT is the hour when Arno turns | |
| Her gold to chrysoprase; | |
| When each low-hanging star outburns | |
| Its faint, mysterious rays, | |
| As from the prison of faery urns | 5 |
| Which faery hands upraise. | |
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| It is the hour when life’s constraint | |
| A moment’s ease is given; | |
| When Earth is like a holy saint, | |
| Stilled, sanctified, and shriven, | 10 |
| And the deep-breathing heart grows faint | |
| To be so near to Heaven. | |
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