Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Walter Savage Landor. 1775–1864563. Resignation
| WHY, why repine, my pensive friend, | |
| At pleasures slipp’d away? | |
| Some the stern Fates will never lend, | |
| And all refuse to stay. | |
| I see the rainbow in the sky, | 5 |
| The dew upon the grass; | |
| I see them, and I ask not why | |
| They glimmer or they pass. | |
| With folded arms I linger not | |
| To call them back; ’twere vain: | 10 |
| In this, or in some other spot, | |
| I know they’ll shine again. |