| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Margaret Love Peacock |
| | | Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) |
| | | | | Three Years Old |
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| LONG night succeeds thy little day: | |
| O, blighted blossom! can it be | |
| That this gray stone and grassy clay | |
| Have clos’d our anxious care of thee? | |
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| The half-form’d speech of artless thought, | 5 |
| That spoke a mind beyond thy years, | |
| The song, the dance by Nature taught, | |
| The sunny smiles, the transient tears, | |
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| The symmetry of face and form, | |
| The eye with light and life replete, | 10 |
| The little heart so fondly warm, | |
| The voice so musically sweet,— | |
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| These, lost to hope, in memory yet | |
| Around the hearts that lov’d thee cling, | |
| Shadowing with long and vain regret | 15 |
| The too fair promise of thy Spring. | |
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