| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems.
XI. Life Tapestry | | By Dora Greenwell (1821–1882) |
| | | TOO long have I, methought, with tearful eye | |
| Pored o’er this tangled work of mine, and mused | |
| Above each stitch awry, and thread confused; | |
| Now will I think on what in years gone by | |
| I heard of them that weave rare tapestry | 5 |
| At Royal looms, and how they constant use | |
| To work on the rough side, and still peruse | |
| The pictured pattern set above them high: | |
| So will I set MY COPY high above, | |
| And gaze and gaze till on my spirit grows | 10 |
| Its gracious impress: till some line of love | |
| Transferred upon my canvas, faintly glows; | |
| Nor look too much on warp or woof, provide | |
| He whom I work for sees their fairer side. | | | | |
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