The Daisy by Rennell Rodd. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

The Daisy

Rennell Rodd (b. 1858)


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,	5
And I know what it wished to say:
There are stars all night in the heaven,
And I am the star of day.