| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1716. Helios |
| | | By Joel Elias Spingarn |
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| OH, I am weary of a heart that brings | |
| Star-worship even to the shining sun: | |
| Rather a savage whose whole heart hath won | |
| Radiance and joy from sunlight than whose wings | |
| Flutter and fade before the twilight rings: | 5 |
| Why should we falter when the night is done,— | |
| Dream-weavers, trembling in dim mists that stun | |
| All things divorced from thought, and thought from things? | |
| I am thy child, O Sun, as Julian was: | |
| I crouch not in the shadows of my soul, | 10 |
| And grapple with dark terrors; nor, rewon, | |
| Drink I of darkness when the shadows pass: | |
| Even at death, when nearest is the goal, | |
| I shall cry out to heaven, “The sun! the sun!” | |
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