Source: Project Gutenberg #136
Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/136
Public domain basis: Public-domain English poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885).
Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition a-childs-garden-of-verses at bytes 42509-43151; checksum 44826648dbae8247a84c91716da61465276615c6d5df2c3ce374a92b0c02f293.


# The Flowers

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.

  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.


                                            IV