| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | The Look | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| | | THE SAVIOUR looked on Peter. Ay, no word, | |
| No gesture of reproach; the Heavens serene | |
| Though heavy with armed justice, did not lean | |
| Their thunders that way: the forsaken Lord | |
| Looked only on the traitor. None record | 5 |
| What that look was, none guess; for those who have seen | |
| Wronged lovers loving through a death-pang keen, | |
| Or pale-cheeked martyrs smiling to a sword, | |
| Have missed Jehovah at the judgment-call. | |
| And Peter, from the height of blasphemy— | 10 |
| “I never knew this man”—did quail and fall, | |
| As knowing straight THAT GOD; and turnëd free | |
| And went out speechless from the face of all, | |
| And filled the silence, weeping, bitterly. | | | | |
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