| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Meet We No Angels, Pansie? | | By Thomas Ashe (1836–1889) |
| | | CAME, on a Sabbath noon, my sweet, | |
| In white, to find her lover; | |
| The grass grew proud beneath her feet, | |
| The green elm-leaves above her:— | |
| Meet we no angels, Pansie? | 5 |
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| She said, ‘We meet no angels now’; | |
| And soft lights stream’d upon her; | |
| And with white hand she touch’d a bough; | |
| She did it that great honour:— | |
| What! meet no angels, Pansie? | 10 |
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| O sweet brown hat, brown hair, brown eyes, | |
| Down-dropp’d brown eyes, so tender! | |
| Then what said I?—gallant replies | |
| Seem flattery, and offend her:— | |
| But—meet no angels, Pansie? | 15 | | | |
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