Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Sonnets. St. John at Patmos. I. “What be his dreams”William Alexander (1824–1911)
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Looks he toward Athens, where the very fall
Of Grecian sunlight is Platonical?
Or, peradventure, towards the Cyclades,
The Delian earth-star, ray’d with laurel trees—
From ribbon’d baskets where Demeter threw
Flowers the colour of the country blue
Oat-garlanded in Pares—or where bees
Humming o’er Amalthæa, who fed Zeus
With goat-milk, goldenly the forest starr’d,
While rosy purple apples full of juice
Laugh’d in the grassy horn—where, Naxosward,
Flush’d Dyonysus, driven o’er the brine,
Ivied the mast, and cream’d the crimson wine.