Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Augusta Webster 1840–94

Songs from Dramas. III. Day Is Dead

DAY is dead, and let us sleep,

Sleep a while or sleep for aye;

’T were the best if we unknew

While to-morrow dawn’d and grew;

It may bring us time to weep:

We were glad to-day.

Joy for a little while is won,

Joy is ending while begun;

Then the setting of the sun;

Afterwards is long to rue.