White Roses by Ernest Rhys. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

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

White Roses

Ernest Rhys (b. 1860)


NO sleep like hers, no rest,
In all the earth to-night:
Upon her whiter breast
Our roses lie so light.

She had no sins to lose,	5
As some might say;
But calmly keeps her pale repose
Till God’s good day.