| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Days | | By Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | | DAUGHTERS of Time, the hypocritic Days, | |
| Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes | |
| And marching single in an endless file, | |
| Bring diadems and faggots in their hands. | |
| To each they offer gifts after his will— | 5 |
| Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. | |
| I, in my pleachèd garden, watch’d the pomp, | |
| Forgot my morning wishes, hastily | |
| Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day | |
| Turn’d and departed silent. I, too late, | 10 |
| Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn. | | | | |
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