Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Stephen Hawker. 18041875675. Are they not all Ministering Spirits?
WE see them not—we cannot hear | |
The music of their wing— | |
Yet know we that they sojourn near, | |
The Angels of the spring! | |
They glide along this lovely ground | 5 |
When the first violet grows; | |
Their graceful hands have just unbound | |
The zone of yonder rose. | |
I gather it for thy dear breast, | |
From stain and shadow free: | 10 |
That which an Angel’s touch hath blest | |
Is meet, my love, for thee! |