| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | A Book of Sonnets | | Shakespeare |
| | | A VISION as of crowded city streets, | |
| With human life in endless overflow; | |
| Thunder of thoroughfares; trumpets that blow | |
| To battle; clamor, in obscure retreats, | |
| Of sailors landed from their anchored fleets; | 5 |
| Tolling of bells in turrets, and below | |
| Voices of children, and bright flowers that throw | |
| O’er garden-walls their intermingled sweets! | |
| This vision comes to me when I unfold | |
| The volume of the Poet paramount, | 10 |
| Whom all the Muses loved, not one alone;— | |
| Into his hands they put the lyre of gold, | |
| And, crowned with sacred laurel at their fount, | |
| Placed him as Musagetes on their throne. | | | | |
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