| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Hidden Joys |
| | | Laman Blanchard (1804–45) |
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| PLEASURES lie thickest where no pleasures seem: | |
| There ’s not a leaf that falls upon the ground | |
| But holds some joy, of silence, or of sound, | |
| Some sprite begotten of a summer dream. | |
| The very meanest things are made supreme | 5 |
| With innate ecstacy. No grain of sand | |
| But moves a bright and million-peopled land, | |
| And hath its Edens and its Eves, I deem. | |
| For Love, though blind himself, a curious eye | |
| Hath lent me, to behold the hearts of things, | 10 |
| And touch’d mine ear with power. Thus, far or nigh, | |
| Minute or mighty, fix’d or free with wings, | |
| Delight from many a nameless covert sly | |
| Peeps sparkling, and in tones familiar sings. | |
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