Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Philip Bourke Marston 185087After Summer
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No, not we:
Strew above his head the clover,—
Let him be!
Shed their tears
There upon him, where he ’s lying
With his peers.
Gifts most sweet;
For our hearts a grave he offer’d,—
Was this meet?
In his wrath,—
All the lovely dreams we cherish’d
Strew’d his path.
Far apart,
Sunder’d wide as seas can sunder
Heart from heart,
That were ours,—
Bitter nights, more bitter morrows;
Poison-flowers
Saying, “See,
These are yours, in place of gladness,—
Gifts from me”?
Is supreme,
And below the poppy flowers
Steals no dream.