Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot | | Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | | TWO souls diverse out of our human sight | |
| Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder: | |
| The stormy sophist with his mouth of thunder, | |
| Clothed with loud words and mantled in the might | |
| Of darkness and magnificence of night; | 5 |
| And one whose eye could smite the night in sunder, | |
| Searching if light or no light were thereunder, | |
| And found in love of loving-kindness light. | |
| Duty Divine and Thought with eyes of fire | |
| Still following Righteousness with deep desire | 10 |
| Shone sole and stern before her and above, | |
| Sure stars and sole to steer by; but more sweet | |
| Shone lower the loveliest lamp for earthly feet, | |
| The light of little children, and their love. | | | | |
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