| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | The Rose of Peace | | By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
| | | IF Michael, leader of God’s host | |
| When Heaven and Hell are met, | |
| Look’d down on you from Heaven’s door-post | |
| He would his deeds forget. | |
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| Brooding no more upon God’s wars | 5 |
| In his Divine homestead, | |
| He would go weave out of the stars | |
| A chaplet for your head. | |
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| And all folk seeing him bow down, | |
| And white stars tell your praise, | 10 |
| Would come at last to God’s great town, | |
| Led on by gentle ways; | |
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| And God would bid his warfare cease. | |
| Saying all things were well; | |
| And softly make a rosy peace, | 15 |
| A peace of Heaven with Hell. | | | | |
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