Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Sir Edmund William Gosse 18491928With a Copy of Herrick
Gosse-SiF
And scents of showers,
Take to your haunt of holy books
This saint of flowers.
And heaven is blue,
Before his shrine our prayers we say,—
Saint Robin true.
Thorns of sweet briar;
His benediction is a laugh,
Birds are his choir.
Unction distils;
He hath a nimbus round his head
Of daffodils.