Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Thomas Hood 17991845Ballad
Hood-ThoI
Our loving lot was cast;
It was the time of roses,
We pluck’d them as we pass’d.
On early lovers yet:
Oh, no—the world was newly crown’d
With flowers when first we met!
But still you held me fast;
It was the time of roses,
We pluck’d them as we pass’d.
That tears began to stud?
And when I ask’d the like of Love,
You snatch’d a damask bud;
Still glowing to the last.
It was the time of roses,
We pluck’d them as we pass’d.