Posts Tagged ‘Childhood’
My Shadow – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
My Shadow from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see…
Read MoreJessie Willcox Smith Illustrations – At the back of the North Wind – Page 2
Jessie Willcox Smith Illustrations – At the back of the North Wind
The Green Singing Book – Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Green Singing Book by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 I don’t know how to read the words, Nor how the black things go. But if you stand it up, and sing, You never have to know. The music sounds alike each time When grown-up people play; But every…
Read MoreThe Candlelight with Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Candlelight by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 When I ‘ve wished on my first star, While the rest begin, And the grass is waking up, Oh, She calls us in! Then She calls us in. But I wouldn’t go, unless I were sure there’d be Something more like…
Read MoreMaking the House with Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
Making a House by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 First of all, I draw the Smoke Trailing up the sky; Then the Chimney, underneath; And Birds all flying by; Then the House; and every Window, Watching, like an Eye. Everybody else begins With the House. But I Love the…
Read MoreThe Masterpiece with Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
The Masterpiece by Josephine Preston Peabody from The book of the little past, 1910 Mother cut it out for me, And started it, so I could see; And then she turned some edges in, And let me take it to begin. I made it. But I did not know How very long it takes to…
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