| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Love’s Likeness | | By George Darley (1795–1846) |
| | | O MARK yon Rose-tree! When the West | |
| Breathes on her with too warm a zest, | |
| She turns her cheek away; | |
| Yet if one moment he refrain, | |
| She turns her cheek to him again, | 5 |
| And woos him still to stay! | |
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| Is she not like a maiden coy | |
| Press’d by some amorous-breathing boy? | |
| Tho’ coy, she courts him too, | |
| Winding away her slender form, | 10 |
| She will not have him woo so warm, | |
| And yet will have him woo! | | | | |
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