| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A Little Song |
| | | Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) |
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| THE SUNSET in the rosy west | |
| Burned soft and high; | |
| A shore-lark fell like a stone to his nest | |
| In the waving rye. | |
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| A wind came over the garden beds | 5 |
| From the dreamy lawn, | |
| The pansies nodded their purple heads, | |
| The poppies began to yawn. | |
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| One pansy said: It is only sleep, | |
| Only his gentle breath: | 10 |
| But a rose lay strewn in a snowy heap, | |
| For the rose it was only death. | |
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| Heigho, we ’ve only one life to live, | |
| And only one death to die: | |
| Good-morrow, new world, have you nothing to give?— | 15 |
| Good-bye, old world, good-bye. | |
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