| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Eve | | By William James Henderson (1855–1937) |
| | | LONE in the sunrise of primeval day, | |
| More lovely than the virgin world around, | |
| With fingers pressed on lips that made no sound, | |
| She stood and gazed. Spread out before her lay | |
| The future—and the clouds were rolled away. | 5 |
| The war of kings in empires still unfound, | |
| The crash of cannon that should yet resound, | |
| She heard, and saw the great world rock and sway. | |
| Across the crimson sky above her head | |
| There came a cry of children asking food; | 10 |
| A wail of women for the nation’s dead | |
| Went upward to the stars. So pale she stood; | |
| Then to some secret place in Eden fled, | |
| And wept in presage of her motherhood. | | | | |
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