Poems (Victor)/Edith

by Frances Fuller Victor

For works with similar titles, see Edith.

EDITH.

"A violet by a mossy stone
⁠Half hidden to the eye,"
Sang Wordsworth of that English girl
⁠Who pleased the poet's eye.
I sing of one, a garden rose,
⁠Grown in a freer air
As modest as the violet
⁠And many times more fair.