| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Collige Rosas | | By William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |
| | | O GATHER me the rose, the rose, | |
| While yet in flower we find it, | |
| For summer smiles, but summer goes, | |
| And winter waits behind it. | |
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| For with the dream foregone, foregone, | 5 |
| The deed forborne for ever, | |
| The worm Regret will canker on, | |
| And time will turn him never. | |
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| So were it well to love, my love, | |
| And cheat of any laughter | 10 |
| The fate beneath us and above, | |
| The dark before and after. | |
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| The myrtle and the rose, the rose, | |
| The sunshine and the swallow, | |
| The dream that comes, the wish that goes, | 15 |
| The memories that follow! | | | | |
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