| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Poor Withered Rose |
| | | Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) |
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| POOR wither’d rose and dry, | |
| Skeleton of a rose, | |
| Risen to testify | |
| To love’s sad close: | |
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| Treasur’d for love’s sweet sake, | 5 |
| That of joy past | |
| Thou mightst again awake | |
| Memory at last. | |
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| Yet is thy perfume sweet; | |
| Thy petals red | 10 |
| Yet tell of summer heat, | |
| And the gay bed: | |
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| Yet, yet recall the glow | |
| Of the gazing sun, | |
| When at thy bush we two | 15 |
| Join’d hands in one. | |
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| But, rose, thou hast not seen, | |
| Thou hast not wept, | |
| The change that pass’d between | |
| Whilst thou hast slept. | 20 |
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| To me thou seemest yet | |
| The dead dream’s thrall; | |
| While I live and forget | |
| Dream, truth, and all. | |
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| Thou art more fresh than I, | 25 |
| Rose, sweet and red: | |
| Salt on my pale cheeks lie | |
| The tears I shed. | |
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