• A Poppy grows upon the shore
      Bursts her twin cup in summer late:
    Her leaves are glaucous green and hoar,
      Her petals yellow, delicate.

    Oft to her cousins turns her thought,
      In wonder if they care that she
    Is fed with spray for dew, and caught
      By every gale that sweeps the sea.

    She has no lovers like the Red
      ...

  • Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not---

    These three bloomed in a garden spot;

    And once, all merry with song and play,

    A little one heard three voices say:

       "Shine and shadow, summer and spring,

          O thou child with the tangled hair

       And laughing eyes! we three shall bring

          Each an...