FROM DRAWINGS IN COLOR
BY JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH | | FACING PAGE | | Bed in Summer | 4 | | In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
| | Foreign Lands | 10 | | I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.
| | The Land of Counterpane | 18 | | I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
| | My Shadow | 20 | | He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
| | Foreign Children | 34 | | Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee,
Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
| | Looking-glass River | 42 | | We can see our coloured faces
Floating on the shaken pool
| | | The Hayloft | 48 | | Oh, what a joy to clamber there,
Oh, what a place for play,
With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
The happy hills of hay!
| | North-west Passage | 50 | | And face with an undaunted tread
The long black passage up to bed.
| | Picture-books in Winter | 64 | | Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story-books.
| | The Little Land | 74 | | I have just to shut my eyes
To go sailing through the skies—
To go sailing far away
To the pleasant Land of Play;
| | The Flowers | 84 | | All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.
| | To Auntie | 100 | | What did the other children do?
And what were childhood, wanting you?
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A CHILD'S
GARDEN OF
VERSES
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