| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Spiritual Passion | | By George Barlow (1847–1914?) |
| | | I FEEL towards God just as a woman might | |
| Who hears her lord praised by the adoring crowd: | |
| Who hears them hymn his strength with paean loud— | |
| His glory in thought or speech, his force in fight. | |
| She knows him better. Thro’ the silent night | 5 |
| She has watch’d his face beneath keen sorrow bow’d; | |
| Him she has cherish’d with embraces white; | |
| She has kiss’d the lips that seem to men so proud. | |
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| She cannot fear: she loves. She can but smile | |
| That men should dread like some disastrous wand | 10 |
| His sceptre wielded o’er the people, while | |
| She knows the sea-deep love that lies beyond. | |
| She trusts her lord without one thought of guile, | |
| Knowing her union holier and more fond. | | | | |
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