| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | [Deirioessa Kadyx] | | By Maurice Baring (1874–1945) |
| | | SHE listen’d to the music of the spheres; | |
| We thought she did not hear our happy strings; | |
| Stars diadem’d her hair in misty rings, | |
| And all too late we knew those stars were tears. | |
| Without she was a temple of pure snow, | 5 |
| Within were piteous flames of sacrifice; | |
| And underneath the dazzling mask of ice | |
| A heart of swiftest fire was dying slow. | |
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| She in herself, as lonely lilies fold | |
| Stiff silver petals over secret gold, | 10 |
| Shielded her passion and remain’d afar | |
| From pity. Cast red roses on the pyre! | |
| She that was snow shall rise to Heaven as fire | |
| In the still glory of the morning star. | | | | |
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