“The Rose”

      

“The Rose” handwritten by Ella Higginson, courtesy of the Ella Higginson Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Heritage Resources, Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington. 
 

 

“The Rose” as it appears in Higginson’s Four-Leaf Clover (1901).
“The Rose” as it appears in Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).