| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1168. Quatrains |
| | | By Edith Matilda Thomas |
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THE SOUL IN THE BODY
WHAT if the Soul her real life elsewhere holds, | |
| Her faint reflex Time’s darkling stream enfolds, | |
| And thou and I, though seeming dwellers here, | |
| Live some where yonder in the starlit sphere? | |
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INSOMNIA
A HOUSE of sleepers—I, alone unblest, | 5 |
| Am yet awake and empty vigil keep. | |
| When these, who spend life’s day with me, find rest, | |
| Oh, let me not be last to fall asleep! | |
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TO IMAGINATION
ONE day thou didst desert me—then I learned | |
| How looks the world to men that lack thy grace, | 10 |
| And toward the shadowy night sick-hearted turned,— | |
| When, lo! the first star brought me back thy face! | |
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