| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 32. Night and Morning Songs |
| | | Elegiac Mood |
| | | By Gordon Bottomley |
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| FROM song and dream for ever gone | |
| Are Helen, Helen of Troy, | |
| And Cleopatra made to look upon, | |
| And many a daring boy— | |
| Young Faust and Sigurd and Hippolytus: | 5 |
| They are twice dead and we must find | |
| Great ladies yet unblemished by the mind, | |
| Heroes and acts not cold for us | |
| In amber or spirits of too many words. | |
| Ay, these are murdered by much thinking on. | 10 |
| I hanker even for new shapes of swords, | |
| More different sins, and raptures not yet done. | |
| Yet, as I wait on marvels, such a bird | |
| As maybe Sigurd heard— | |
| A thrush—alighting with a little run | 15 |
| Out-tops the daisies as it passes | |
| And peeps bright-eyed above the grasses. | |
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