| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 895. To St. Mary Magdalen |
| | | By Benjamin Dionysius Hill (Father Edmund, of the Heart of Mary, C. P.) |
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| MID the white spouses of the Sacred Heart, | |
| After its queen, the nearest, dearest thou: | |
| Yet the aureola around thy brow | |
| Is not the virgins’—thine a throne apart. | |
| Nor yet, my Saint, does faith-illumined art | 5 |
| Thy hand with palm of martyrdom endow: | |
| And when thy hair is all it will allow | |
| Of glory to thy head, we do not start. | |
| O more than virgin in thy penitent love! | |
| And more than martyr in thy passionate woe! | 10 |
| Who knelt not with thee on the gory sod, | |
| How should they now sit throned with thee above? | |
| Or where the crown our worship could bestow | |
| Like that long gold which wiped the feet of God? | |
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