| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Thomas Love Peacock. 1785–1866 |
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| 594. The Grave of Love |
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| I DUG, beneath the cypress shade, | |
| What well might seem an elfin's grave; | |
| And every pledge in earth I laid, | |
| That erst thy false affection gave. | |
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| I press'd them down the sod beneath; | 5 |
| I placed one mossy stone above; | |
| And twined the rose's fading wreath | |
| Around the sepulchre of love. | |
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| Frail as thy love, the flowers were dead | |
| Ere yet the evening sun was set: | 10 |
| But years shall see the cypress spread, | |
| Immutable as my regret. | |
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