Nature
The Daisy
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
Nature
With little white leaves in the grasses,
Spread wide for the smile of the sun,
It waits till the daylight passes
And closes them one by one.
I have asked why it closed at even,
And I know what it wished to say:
There are stars all night in the heaven,—
And I am the star of day.
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Rodd, James Rennell. “The Daisy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rodd/4/.
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Rodd, James Rennell. “The Daisy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rodd/4/.
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