Under Blue Skies: Verses & Pictures

Chapter 10: SILENT VOICES. III. CLOSING FLOWERS.

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A series of short lyric and nursery poems celebrates childhood and the natural world through images of flowers, birds, insects, family drives, and simple domestic scenes. Vivid sensory detail and gentle rhythms evoke summer play, study hours, picnics, and bedtime imagination, while recurring motifs such as daisies and grass tie pieces together. The sequence alternates observational vignettes and whimsical personifications, offering consolatory, mildly moral tones and pairing brief, songlike verses with pictures to create an accessible experience for young readers.

SILENT VOICES.
III.
CLOSING FLOWERS.

When the sun, in red and gold,
Down the West was creeping;
When the bird beneath its wing
Tucked its head for sleeping,
Silently the silken doors
Of the flowers were closing;
Poppies each, with drooping head,
Slowly fell a-dozing.
With my heart, I heard them say,
"Good-night till the morrow:
Here's good-night to all the world
Till the happy morrow."