| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| In Memory of Walter Savage Landor |
| | | Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
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| BACK to the flower-town, side by side, | |
| The bright months bring, | |
| New-born, the bridegroom and the bride, | |
| Freedom and spring. | |
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| The sweet land laughs from sea to sea, | 5 |
| Fill’d full of sun; | |
| All things come back to her, being free; | |
| All things but one. | |
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| In many a tender wheaten plot | |
| Flowers that were dead | 10 |
| Live, and old suns revive; but not | |
| That holier head. | |
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| By this white wandering waste of sea, | |
| Far north, I hear | |
| One face shall never turn to me | 15 |
| As once this year: | |
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| Shall never smile and turn and rest | |
| On mine as there, | |
| Nor one most sacred hand be prest | |
| Upon my hair. | 20 |
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| I came as one whose thoughts half linger, | |
| Half run before; | |
| The youngest to the oldest singer | |
| That England bore. | |
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| I found him whom I shall not find | 25 |
| Till all grief end, | |
| In holiest age our mightiest mind, | |
| Father and friend. | |
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| But thou, if anything endure, | |
| If hope there be, | 30 |
| O spirit that man’s life left pure, | |
| Man’s death set free, | |
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| Not with disdain of days that were | |
| Look earthward now | |
| Let dreams revive the reverend hair, | 35 |
| The imperial brow; | |
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| Come back in sleep, for in the life | |
| Where thou art not | |
| We find none like thee. Time and strife | |
| And the world’s lot | 40 |
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| Move thee no more; but love at least | |
| And reverent heart | |
| May move thee, royal and releast, | |
| Soul, as thou art. | |
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| And thou, his Florence, to thy trust | 45 |
| Receive and keep, | |
| Keep safe his dedicated dust, | |
| His sacred sleep. | |
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| So shall thy lovers, come from far, | |
| Mix with thy name | 50 |
| As morning-star with evening-star | |
| His faultless fame. | |
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