| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | For Exmoor | | By Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) |
| | | FOR Exmoor— | |
| For Exmoor, where the red deer run, my weary heart doth cry: | |
| She that will a rover wed, far her feet shall hie. | |
| Narrow, narrow, shows the street, dull the narrow sky. | |
| —Buy my cherries, whiteheart cherries, good my masters, buy! | 5 |
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| For Exmoor— | |
| O he left me, left alone, aye to think and sigh— | |
| ‘Lambs feed down yon sunny coombe, hind and yearling shy | |
| Mid the shrouding vapours walk now like ghosts on high.’ | |
| —Buy my cherries, blackheart cherries, lads and lasses, buy! | 10 |
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| For Exmoor— | |
| Dear my dear, why did ye so? Evil day have I; | |
| Mark no more the antler’d stag, hear the curlew cry, | |
| Milking at my father’s gate while he leans anigh. | |
| —Buy my cherries, whiteheart, blackheart, golden girls, O buy! | 15 | | | |
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