| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Cowslips |
| | | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
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| WITH rosy hand a little girl press’d down | |
| A boss of fresh-cull’d cowslips in a rill: | |
| Often as they sprang up again, a frown | |
| Show’d she dislik’d resistance to her will: | |
| But when they droop’d their heads and shone much less, | 5 |
| She shook them to and fro, and threw them by, | |
| And tripp’d away. “Ye loathe the heaviness | |
| Ye love to cause, my little girls!” thought I, | |
| “And what has shone for you, by you must die!” | |
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