| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| Stephen Phillips. 1868–1915 |
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| 60. Fragment from "Herod" |
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Herod speaks:
I DREAMED last night of a dome of beaten gold | |
| To be a counter-glory to the Sun. | |
| There shall the eagle blindly dash himself, | |
| There the first beam shall strike, and there the moon | |
| Shall aim all night her argent archery; | 5 |
| And it shall be the tryst of sundered stars, | |
| The haunt of dead and dreaming Solomon; | |
| Shall send a light upon the lost in Hell, | |
| And flashings upon faces without hope.— | |
| And I will think in gold and dream in silver, | 10 |
| Imagine in marble and conceive in bronze, | |
| Till it shall dazzle pilgrim nations | |
| And stammering tribes from undiscovered lands, | |
| Allure the living God out of the bliss, | |
| And all the streaming seraphim from heaven. | 15 |
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