| Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed. (1869–1948). The Second Book of Modern Verse. 1922. |
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| Overnight, a Rose |
| | | Caroline Giltinan |
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| THAT overnight a rose could come | |
| I one time did believe, | |
| For when the fairies live with one, | |
| They wilfully deceive. | |
| But now I know this perfect thing | 5 |
| Under the frozen sod | |
| In cold and storm grew patiently | |
| Obedient to God. | |
| My wonder grows, since knowledge came | |
| Old fancies to dismiss; | 10 |
| And courage comes. Was not the rose | |
| A winter doing this? | |
| Nor did it know, the weary while, | |
| What color and perfume | |
| With this completed loveliness | 15 |
| Lay in that earthly tomb. | |
| So maybe I, who cannot see | |
| What God wills not to show, | |
| May, some day, bear a rose for Him | |
| It took my life to grow. | 20 |
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