| Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880. | | | | Easter | | By George Herbert (1593–1633) |
| | | I GOT me flowers to strew Thy way; | |
| I got me boughs off many a tree; | |
| But thou wast up by break of day, | |
| And brought’st Thy sweets along with Thee. | |
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| The sun arising in the east,— | 5 |
| Though he give light, and the east perfume; | |
| If they should offer to contest | |
| With Thy arising, they presume. | |
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| Can there be any day but this, | |
| Though many suns to shine endeavor? | 10 |
| We count three hundred,—but we miss: | |
| There is but one, and that one ever. | | | | |
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