Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Thomas Love Peacock 17851866Margaret Love Peacock
PeacockLL
O, blighted blossom! can it be
That this gray stone and grassy clay
Have clos’d our anxious care of thee?
That spoke a mind beyond thy years,
The song, the dance by Nature taught,
The sunny smiles, the transient tears,
The eye with light and life replete,
The little heart so fondly warm,
The voice so musically sweet,—
Around the hearts that lov’d thee cling,
Shadowing with long and vain regret
The too fair promise of thy Spring.