| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Song: ‘O fly not, Pleasure, pleasant-hearted Pleasure’ | | By Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) |
| | | O FLY not, Pleasure, pleasant-hearted Pleasure; | |
| Fold me thy wings, I prithee, yet and stay: | |
| For my heart no measure | |
| Knows, nor other treasure | |
| To buy a garland for my love to-day. | 5 |
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| And thou, too, Sorrow, tender-hearted Sorrow, | |
| Thou gray-eyed mourner, fly not yet away: | |
| For I fain would borrow | |
| Thy sad weeds to-morrow, | |
| To make a mourning for love’s yesterday. | 10 |
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| The voice of Pity, Time’s divine dear Pity, | |
| Moved me to tears: I dared not say them nay, | |
| But pass’d forth from the city, | |
| Making thus my ditty | |
| Of fair love lost for ever and a day. | 15 | | | |
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