Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Epigrams
By James Aldrich (18101856)[From Poems. Collection of 1884.]
ETERNITY.
SAt that great sea which laves no mortal shore?
Rightly conceived, Eternity is now,
And Time, with all its troubles, is no more.
A
Who was John Huss?
And eagerly every one answered me thus:
A holy martyr was good John Huss.
At Rome I repeated the question and there
As eagerly every one answered me thus:
A heretic knave was the infamous Huss.
H
Have music in their tread,
And where she moves a presence seems
With golden wings outspread.