The Flowers

 

All the names I know from nurse;

Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,

Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,

And the Lady Hollyhock.

The Flowers

Jessie Willcox Smith
(1863-1935)
American Illustrator

Fairy places, fairy things,

Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,

Tiny trees for tiny dames-

These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs

Shady fairies weave a house;

Tiny tree-tops, rose and thyme,

Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grown-up people's trees,

But the fairest woods are these;

Where if I were not so tall,

I should live for good and all.

"The Flowers"
Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-1894)
Scottish novelist & poet