Windflowers / Edith Nesbit

When I was little and good

I walked in the dappled wood

Where light white windflowers grew,

And hyacinths heavy and blue.

The windflowers fluttered light,

Like butterflies white and bright;

The bluebells tremulous stood

Deep in the heart of the wood.

I gathered the white and the blue,

The wild wet woodland through,

With hands too silly and small

To clasp and carry them all.

Some dropped from my hands and died

By the home-road's grassy side;

And those that my fond hands pressed

Died even before the rest.