| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy. 1844–1881 |
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| 829. Song |
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| I MADE another garden, yea, | |
| For my new Love: | |
| I left the dead rose where it lay | |
| And set the new above. | |
| Why did my Summer not begin? | 5 |
| Why did my heart not haste? | |
| My old Love came and walk'd therein, | |
| And laid the garden waste. | |
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| She enter'd with her weary smile, | |
| Just as of old; | 10 |
| She look'd around a little while | |
| And shiver'd with the cold: | |
| Her passing touch was death to all, | |
| Her passing look a blight; | |
| She made the white rose-petals fall, | 15 |
| And turn'd the red rose white. | |
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| Her pale robe clinging to the grass | |
| Seem'd like a snake | |
| That bit the grass and ground, alas! | |
| And a sad trail did make. | 20 |
| She went up slowly to the gate, | |
| And then, just as of yore, | |
| She turn'd back at the last to wait | |
| And say farewell once more. | |
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