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Poem for October 24, 2023

The poem for October 24, 2023 is "The Flowers" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Flowers

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

About this daily poem

Daily date
October 24, 2023
Poem
The Flowers
Poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
Themes
nature, love, beauty, solitude

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