| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1369. On a Greek Vase |
| | | By Frank Dempster Sherman |
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| DIVINELY shapen cup, thy lip | |
| Unto me seemeth thus to speak: | |
| “Behold in me the workmanship, | |
| The grace and cunning of a Greek! | |
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| “Long ages since he mixed the clay, | 5 |
| Whose sense of symmetry was such, | |
| The labor of a single day | |
| Immortal grew beneath his touch. | |
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| “For dreaming while his fingers went | |
| Around this slender neck of mine, | 10 |
| The form of her he loved was blent | |
| With every matchless curve and line. | |
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| “Her loveliness to me he gave | |
| Who gave unto herself his heart, | |
| That love and beauty from the grave | 15 |
| Might rise and live again in art.” | |
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| And hearing from thy lips this tale | |
| Of love and skill, of art and grace, | |
| Thou seem’st to me no more the frail | |
| Memento of an older race: | 20 |
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| But in thy form divinely wrought | |
| And figured o’er with fret and scroll, | |
| I dream, by happy chance was caught, | |
| And dwelleth now, that maiden’s soul. | |
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