Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Frederic William Henry Myers 18431901I Saw, I Saw the Lovely Child
Myers-FrI
I watch’d her by the way,
I learnt her gestures sweet and wild,
Her loving eyes and gay.
Enough it was for me
To find her innocently fair
And delicately free.
Nor trace the angel’s birth,
Nor find the Paradisal one
A blossom of the earth!
How quick the soul’s alarm!
How lightly deed or word destroys
That evanescent charm!
Unfetter’d flees away;
His swiftest and his sweetest thought
Can never poet say.