Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | To Thackeray | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | | O GENTLER Censor of our age! | |
| Prime master of our ampler tongue! | |
| Whose word of wit and generous page | |
| Were never wroth except with Wrong. | |
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| Fielding—without the manner’s dross, | 5 |
| Scott—with a spirit’s larger room, | |
| What Prelate deems thy grave his loss? | |
| What Halifax erects thy tomb? | |
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| But, may be, He—who could so draw | |
| The hidden Great, the humble Wise— | 10 |
| Yielding with them to God’s good law, | |
| Makes the Pantheon where he lies. | | | | |
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