A poem from- A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

   

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who lived from 1850-1894 and is best known for his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

This site here has a list of the different illustrators chosen to illustrate the book over time so feel free to check that out. It's interesting to see the different styles used http://flutterbypatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/flower-filled-days.html