| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Thy Song | | By Frances Laughton Mace (1836–1899) |
| | | ASK me not which of all my songs is thine! | |
| Ask of the Spring, when first the blossoms stir, | |
| Which of their fairy pennons waves for her; | |
| Ask of the Night what star of all that shine | |
| Is her own signet, peerless and divine; | 5 |
| Ask of the Sun which purple follower | |
| Among the clouds is his sole worshipper, | |
| Lifting at dawn his colors and his sign. | |
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| As stars are born of night, as flowers of spring, | |
| As clouds the vivid hues of sunlight wear, | 10 |
| And all an equal rank and kinship know, | |
| So is thy memory the awakening, | |
| The living warmth, the radiance large and fair | |
| In which all songs of mine to utterance grow. | | | | |
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