| Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920. |
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| John Masefield. 1878– |
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| 101. Sonnet |
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| IS there a great green commonwealth of Thought | |
| Which ranks the yearly pageant, and decides | |
| How Summer's royal progress shall be wrought, | |
| By secret stir which in each plant abides? | |
| Does rocking daffodil consent that she, | 5 |
| The snowdrop of wet winters, shall be first? | |
| Does spotted cowslip with the grass agree | |
| To hold her pride before the rattle burst? | |
| And in the hedge what quick agreement goes, | |
| When hawthorn blossoms redden to decay, | 10 |
| That Summer's pride shall come, the Summer's rose, | |
| Before the flower be on the bramble spray? | |
| Or is it, as with us, unresting strife, | |
| And each consent a lucky gasp for life? | |
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