| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Titles | | By Lucia (White) Jennison (“Owen Innsley”) (1850– ) |
| | | BORN sovereigns have no names but those bestowed | |
| In baptism; Constance, Philip,—so each age | |
| Knows them, and deals of praise or blame their wage, | |
| As harvests of good fame or ill they sowed. | |
| So with the mighty, o’er whose cradle glowed | 5 |
| The star of genius; with that heritage | |
| Dante and Raphael shine on history’s page | |
| Simple as when they walked our common road. | |
| Like thy great namesake, in whose cause the plain | |
| Of Troy was strewn with corpses, while above | 10 |
| Olympus heard the wrathful gods contend, | |
| So, ’mid the homage of respect and love | |
| Laid at thy feet by lover and by friend, | |
| Helen thou art, and Helen must remain. | | | | |
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