Posts Tagged ‘Poem’
A 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…
Read MoreLooking Glass River – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
Looking Glass River from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam – O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Paven pools as clear as air – How a child wishes To live down there! We…
Read MoreRêve aux étoiles by Paul Berthon dedicated to Eugene Grasset
Poem and images by Paul Berthon circa about 1894, an Art Nouveau artist and a student of Eugene Grasset. A mon cher maître E. GRASSET Comme je passais près de la prairie, Ne pensant à rien – mais rêvant un peu – Je vis roder par la lande fleurie Un rayon d’étoile – un beau…
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