Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | I. Admiration | | Her Likeness | | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) |
| | | A GIRL, who has so many wilful ways | |
| She would have caused Job’s patience to forsake him; | |
| Yet is so rich in all that ’s girlhood’s praise, | |
| Did Job himself upon her goodness gaze, | |
| A little better she would surely make him. | 5 |
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| Yet is this girl I sing in naught uncommon, | |
| And very far from angel yet, I trow. | |
| Her faults, her sweetness, are purely human; | |
| Yet she ’s more lovable as simple woman | |
| Than any one diviner that I know. | 10 |
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| Therefore I wish that she may safely keep | |
| This womanhede, and change not, only grow: | |
| From maid to matron, youth to age, may creep, | |
| And in perennial blessedness, still reap | |
| On every hand of that which she doth sow. | 15 | | | |
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