Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Upon a Winter Morning
By Maybury Fleming (b. 1853)W
And bare death sitteth in the trees,
And life is come to sorry pass,
And morning lacketh drowsy bees—
And of the violets in her eyes;
So, roses warm the wintry drouth,
And death, by thinking of her, dies.