| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale (1837)
XIV. “L’Envoy of Phantasmion” | | By Sarah Coleridge (1802–1850) |
| | | GO, little book, and sing of love and beauty, | |
| To tempt the worldling into fairy land; | |
| Tell him that airy dreams are sacred duty, | |
| Bring better wealth than aught his toils command— | |
| Toils fraught with mickle harm. | 5 |
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| But if thou meet some spirit high and tender, | |
| On blessed works and noblest love intent, | |
| Tell him that airy dreams of nature’s splendour, | |
| With graver thoughts and hallowed musings blent, | |
| Prove no too earthly charm. | 10 | | | |
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