Posts Tagged ‘Childhood’
A Girl Watering Her Fern – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Girl Sitting Upset In A Chair – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Girl Playing With Flower Petals Along The Water Bank – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Girl Waiting On The Stairs By A Clock – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Girl Sweeping the Doorsteps – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Girl Walking In Fall Leaves – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Rainy Day – Mother And Daughter – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
A Rainy Day from Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, 1908 When I woke up and saw the rain In blurs upon the window-pane, I said I hated such a day, Because I couldn’t run and play, Out in the sunshine and the grass. It’s queer how such a day can pass So soon, before…
Read MoreA Girl Observing A Spider Web Among Rose Bushes – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
Stupid You from Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, 1908 There is a shining thread To-day in my rose-bed – A magic net the fairies have outspread To catch the dewy sweet – and yet you said It was a cobweb there instead!
Read MoreDream Blocks – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
Dream Blocks from Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, 1908 With dream-blocks I can build A castle to the sky. No one can shake it down, Though he may try and try, Except myself, and then, I make another one. And shape it as I please. This castle-building fun Nobody takes away, And what 1…
Read MoreMy Bed is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson
from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1919 My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor’s coat And starts me in the dark. At night, I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore; I shut…
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