| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| William H. Davies. 1870– |
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| 68. Days Too Short |
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| WHEN primroses are out in Spring, | |
| And small, blue violets come between; | |
| When merry birds sing on boughs green, | |
| And rills, as soon as born, must sing; | |
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| When butterflies will make side-leaps, | 5 |
| As though escaped from Nature's hand | |
| Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand | |
| Upon their heads in fragrant deeps; | |
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| When small clouds are so silvery white | |
| Each seems a broken rimmèd moon— | 10 |
| When such things are, this world too soon, | |
| For me, doth wear the veil of Night. | |
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