| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | The Field-path | | By Charles Swain (1801–1874) |
| | | TRIPPING down the field-path | |
| Early in the morn, | |
| There I met my own love | |
| ’Midst the golden corn; | |
| Autumn winds were blowing, | 5 |
| As in frolic chase, | |
| All her silken ringlets | |
| Backward from her face; | |
| Little time for speaking | |
| Had she, for the wind | 10 |
| Bonnet, scarf, or ribbon | |
| Ever swept behind. | |
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| Still some sweet improvement | |
| In her beauty shone; | |
| Every graceful movement | 15 |
| Won me, one by one! | |
| Little time for wooing | |
| Had we, for the wind | |
| Still kept on undoing | |
| What we sought to bind … | 20 |
| Still I see the field-path:— | |
| Would that I could see | |
| Her whose graceful beauty | |
| Lost is now to me! | | | | |
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