Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Sentiment: IV. Thought: Poetry: BooksWritten on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus
Maurice Thompson (18441901)T
Of which the poet has his dreams,
When gods beset the woodland ways,
And lay in wait by all the streams.
Severely simple, simply grand,
Or keenly, subtly sweet, as when
Venus and Love went hand in hand.
All the world’s store of rhythm and rhyme
To see Pan fluting on a reed
And with his goat-hoof keeping time!