| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1693. Night-Wind |
| | | By Beatrix Demarest Lloyd |
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| LIKE some great pearl from out the Orient, | |
| Upheld by unseen hands,—in its rich weight | |
| An offering to adorn a queen’s proud state | |
| That offering to adorn a queen’s proud state | |
| That some dependent princeling did present,— | 5 |
| The moon slow rises into night’s dark tent. | |
| The pulseless air, with longings vague befreight, | |
| Now quickens ’neath her gaze, now doth inflate | |
| The still-poised midnight clouds in heaven pent. | |
| With jealous haste he draws them o’er her face, | 10 |
| And by his right forbids all other eyes | |
| To note her beauty and to praise her grace; | |
| Then up on lover’s wings to her he flies | |
| Impatient for the joy of her embrace; | |
| And to the earth are wafted down his sighs. | 15 |
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