Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great WritersTo Thackeray
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (18091885)O G
Prime master of our ampler tongue!
Whose word of wit and generous page
Were never wroth except with Wrong.
Scott—with a spirit’s larger room,
What Prelate deems thy grave his loss?
What Halifax erects thy tomb?
The hidden Great, the humble Wise—
Yielding with them to God’s good law,
Makes the Pantheon where he lies.