| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Forecast |
| | | Archibald Lampman (1861–99) |
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| WHAT days await this woman, whose strange feet | |
| Breathe spells, whose presence makes men dream like wine, | |
| Tall, free and slender as the forest pine, | |
| Whose form is moulded music, through whose sweet | |
| Frank eyes I feel the very heart’s least beat, | 5 |
| Keen, passionate, and full of dreams and fire: | |
| How in the end, and to what man’s desire | |
| Shall all this yield, whose lips shall these lips meet? | |
| One thing I know: if he be great and pure, | |
| This love, this fire, this beauty shall endure; | 10 |
| Triumph and hope shall lead him by the palm: | |
| But if not this, some differing thing he be, | |
| That dream shall break in terror; he shall see | |
| The whirlwind ripen, where he sowed the calm. | |
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