Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DAISY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy blossoms on the rocks Last Line: St stephen's constancy. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Trees | ||||||||
I. THE Daisy blossoms on the rocks, Amid the purple heath; It blossoms on the river's banks, That thrids the glens beneath: The eagle, at his pride of place, Beholds it by his nest; And, in the mead, it cushions soft The lark's descending breast. II. Before the cuckoo, earliest spring Its silver circlet knows, When greening buds begin to swell, And zephyr melts the snows; And when December's breezes howl Along the moorlands bare, And only blooms the Christmas rose, The Daisy still is there! III. Samaritan of flowers! to it All races are alike, The Switzer on his glacier height, The Dutchman by his Dyke, The seal-skin vested Esquimaux, Begirt with icy seas, And, underneath his burning noon, The parasol'd Chinese. IV. The emigrant on distant shore, 'Mid scenes and faces strange, Beholds it flowering in the sward, Where'er his footsteps range; And when his yearning, home-sick heart Would bow to its despair, It reads his eye a lesson sage, That God is everywhere! V. Stars are the Daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky, Beheld by all, and everywhere, Bright prototypes on high: Bloom on, then, unpretending flower! And to the waverer be An emblem of St Paul's content, St Stephen's constancy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES by ROBERT HASS THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MIDNIGHT EDEN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN REFLECTION OF THE WOOD by LEONIE ADAMS THE LIFE OF TREES by DORIANNE LAUX THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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