| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Songs from Dramas. II. ’Tween Earth and Sky |
| | | Augusta Webster (1840–94) |
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| SEEDS with wings, between earth and sky | |
| Fluttering, flying; | |
| Seeds of a lily with blood-red core | |
| Breathing of myrrh and of giroflore: | |
| Where winds drop them, there must they lie, | 5 |
| Living or dying. | |
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| Some to the garden, some to the wall, | |
| Fluttering, falling; | |
| Some to the river, some to earth: | |
| Those that reach the right soil get birth; | 10 |
| None of the rest have liv’d at all. | |
| Whose voice is calling— | |
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| “Here is soil for wing’d seeds that near, | |
| Fluttering, fearing, | |
| Where they shall root and burgeon and spread. | 15 |
| Lacking the heart-room the song lies dead: | |
| Half is the song that reaches the ear, | |
| Half is the hearing”? | |
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