| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Golden Rowan |
| | | Bliss Carman (1861–1929) |
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| SHE lived where the mountains go down to the sea, | |
| And river and tide confer. | |
| Golden Rowan, in Menalowan, | |
| Was the name they gave to her. | |
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| She had the soul no circumstance | 5 |
| Can hurry or defer. | |
| Golden Rowan, of Menalowan, | |
| How time stood still for her! | |
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| Her playmates for their lovers grew, | |
| But that shy wanderer, | 10 |
| Golden Rowan, of Menalowan, | |
| Knew love was not for her. | |
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| Hers was the love of wilding things; | |
| To hear a squirrel chir | |
| In the golden rowan of Menalowan | 15 |
| Was joy enough for her. | |
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| She sleeps on the hill with the lonely sun, | |
| Where in the days that were, | |
| The golden rowan of Menalowan | |
| So often shadowed her. | 20 |
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| The scarlet fruit will come to fill, | |
| The scarlet spring to stir | |
| The golden rowan of Menalowan, | |
| And wake no dream for her. | |
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| Only the wind is over her grave, | 25 |
| For mourner and comforter; | |
| And “Golden Rowan, of Menalowan,” | |
| Is all we know of her. | |
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