| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1710. Quatrains |
| | | By Robert Loveman |
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A DIAMOND
LOOK how it sparkles, see it greet | |
| With laughing light the ambient air; | |
| One little drop of sunshine sweet | |
| Held in eternal bondage there. | |
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SPRING
A WHISPER on the heath I hear, | 5 |
| And blossoms deck the waking wood; | |
| Ah! surely now the virgin year | |
| Is in her blushing maidenhood. | |
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MARCH
WHITHER doth now this fellow flee | |
| With outstretched arms at such mad pace? | 10 |
| Can the young rascal thinking be | |
| To catch a glimpse of April’s face? | |
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APRIL
MAIDEN, thy cheeks with tears are wet, | |
| And ruefully thine eyebrows arch; | |
| Is ’t as they say, thou thinkest yet | 15 |
| Of that inconstant madcap March? | |
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A SUNSET
THE SUN, departing, kissed the summer Sky, | |
| Then bent an instant o’er her beating breast; | |
| She lifts to him a timid, tear-stained eye, | |
| And, lo! her blushes crimson all the west. | 20 |
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