| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Murillo | | By Julia Noyes Stickney (1830– ) |
| | | MURILLO, gentle artist-saint of old, | |
| Whose native city gems the sunny land | |
| Where Moor and Christian fell by mutual hand! | |
| When first the scroll of fame for thee unrolled, | |
| The wandering beggars’ lineaments were told; | 5 |
| Thine own cathedral splendors had been scanned | |
| And tinged with colors of that opal strand, | |
| Ere thou didst paint the vision gates of gold, | |
| Or saw the Lord, in holy Francis’ shrine, | |
| With form supernal, bathed in heavenly love; | 10 |
| Or Hungary’s saint, with gifts of healing-rest; | |
| Or dreamed, with Anthony, of Christ divine, | |
| Robed in the effluence of the airs above, | |
| Where thy Madonnas bore the Infant blest! | | | | |
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