Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Thomas Love Peacock (17851866)The Grave of Love
I
What well might seem an elfin’s grave;
And every pledge in earth I laid,
That erst thy false affection gave.
I placed one mossy stone above;
And twined the rose’s fading wreath
Around the sepulchre of love.
Ere yet the evening sun was set:
But years shall see the cypress spread,
Immutable as my regret.