| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Song, Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year | | By Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) |
| | | YOU wear the morning like your dress | |
| And are with mastery crown’d; | |
| When as you walk your loveliness | |
| Goes shining all around: | |
| Upon your secret, smiling way | 5 |
| Such new contents were found, | |
| The Dancing Loves made holiday | |
| On that delightful ground. | |
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| Then summon April forth, and send | |
| Commandment through the flowers; | 10 |
| About our woods your grace extend, | |
| A queen of careless hours. | |
| For O! not Vera veil’d in rain, | |
| Nor Dian’s sacred Ring, | |
| With all her royal nymphs in train | 15 |
| Could so lead on the Spring. | | | | |
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