Posts Tagged ‘Poems’
Picture Books in Winter – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
Picture Books in Winter Summer fading, winter comes – Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the flowing brooks In the picture story-books. All the pretty things put by, Wait upon the children’s eye, Sheep…
Read MoreThe Flowers – Illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith
The Flowers from A child’s garden of verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905 All the names I know from nurse: Gardener’s garters, Shepherd’s purse, Bachelor’s buttons, Lady’s smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things, Fairy woods where the wild bee wings, Tiny trees for tiny dames – These must all be fairy names!…
Read MoreMy 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…
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