| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Weep Not To-day | | By Robert Bridges (1844–1930) |
| | | WEEP not to-day: why should this sadness be? | |
| Learn in present fears | |
| To o’ermaster those tears | |
| That unhinder’d conquer thee. | |
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| Think on thy past valour, thy future praise: | 5 |
| Up, sad heart, nor faint | |
| In ungracious complaint, | |
| Or a prayer for better days. | |
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| Daily thy life shortens, the grave’s dark peace | |
| Draweth surely nigh, | 10 |
| When good-night is good-bye; | |
| For the sleeping shall not cease. | |
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| Fight, to be found fighting: nor far away | |
| Deem, nor strange thy doom. | |
| Like this sorrow ’twill come, | 15 |
| And the day will be to-day. | | | | |
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