| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| A May Song |
| | | Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (b. 184–) |
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| A LITTLE while my love and I, | |
| Before the mowing of the hay, | |
| Twin’d daisy-chains and cowslip-balls, | |
| And caroll’d glees and madrigals, | |
| Before the hay, beneath the may, | 5 |
| My love (who lov’d me then) and I. | |
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| For long years now my love and I | |
| Tread sever’d paths to varied ends; | |
| We sometimes meet, and sometimes say | |
| The trivial things of every day, | 10 |
| And meet as comrades, meet as friends, | |
| My love (who lov’d me once) and I. | |
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| But never more my love and I | |
| Will wander forth, as once, together, | |
| Or sing the songs we us’d to sing | 15 |
| In spring-time, in the cloudless weather; | |
| Some chord is mute that us’d to ring, | |
| Some word forgot we us’d to say | |
| Amongst the may, before the hay, | |
| My love (who loves me not) and I. | 20 |
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