“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!
Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or 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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Flowers.
Jessie Willcox Smith - The Flowers, A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905.
Found this on the web this morning. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the poem. The painting appears similar to the flower fairies paintings of Cicely Mary Barker.
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