| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 599. White Azaleas |
| | | By Harriet McEwen Kimball |
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| AZALEAS—whitest of white! | |
| White as the drifted snow | |
| Fresh-fallen out of the night, | |
| Before the coming glow | |
| Tinges the morning light; | 5 |
| When the light is like the snow, | |
| White, | |
| And the silence is like the light: | |
| Light, and silence, and snow,— | |
| All—white! | 10 |
| White! not a hint | |
| Of the creamy tint | |
| A rose will hold, | |
| The whitest rose, in its inmost fold; | |
| Not a possible blush; | 15 |
| White as an embodied hush; | |
| A very rapture of white; | |
| A wedlock of silence and light: | |
| White, white as the wonder undefiled | |
| Of Eve just wakened in Paradise; | 20 |
| Nay, white as the angel of a child | |
| That looks into God’s own eyes! | |
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