| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1419. On First Entering Westminster Abbey |
| | | By Louise Imogen Guiney |
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| HOLY of England! since my light is short | |
| And faint, O rather by the sun anew | |
| Of timeless passion set my dial true, | |
| That with thy saints and thee I may consort, | |
| And, wafted in the cool, enshadowed port | 5 |
| Of poets, seem a little sail long due, | |
| And be as one the call of memory drew | |
| Unto the saddle void since Agincourt! | |
| Not now, for secular love’s unquiet lease, | |
| Receive my soul, who, rapt in thee ere-while, | 10 |
| Hath broken tryst with transitory things; | |
| But seal with her a marriage and a peace | |
| Eternal, on thine Edward’s altar-isle, | |
| Above the oval sea of ended kings. | |
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