The Song Of The Daffodil Fairy

Often called the "Heralds of Springtime" lovely and cold resistant 

yellow daffodils often bloom when there is still snow on the ground.

"I'm everyone's darling: the blackbird and starling

Are shouting about me from blossoming boughs;

For I, the Lent Lily, the Daffy-down-dilly,

Have heard through the country the call to arouse.

The orchards are ringing with voices a-singing

The praise of my petticoat, praise of my gown;

The children are playing, and hark! they are saying

That Daffy-down-dilly is come up to town!

"The Song Of The Daffodil Fairy"

Poem and Illustration

Cecily Mary Barker

(1895-1973)

English artist and poetess

Portrait painter of the English fairy folk