| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Rioupéroux | | By James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) |
| | | HIGH and solemn mountains guard Rioupéroux | |
| —Small untidy village where the river drives a mill— | |
| Frail as wood anemones, white and frail were you, | |
| And drooping a little, like the slender daffodil. | |
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| O I will go to France again, and tramp the valley through, | 5 |
| And I will change these gentle clothes for clog and corduroy, | |
| And work with the mill-hands of black Rioupéroux, | |
| And walk with you, and talk with you, like any other boy. | | | | |
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