CONTENTS Page 9. Girls and Boys. 10, 11. The Mulberry Bush. 12. Oranges and Lemons. 13. St. Paul’s Steeple. 14, 15. My Lady’s Garden. 16. Natural History. 17. Lavender’s Blue. 18, 19. I saw Three Ships. 20. Ding Dong Bell. 21. Puss at Court. 22. Three Blind Mice. 23. Dickory Dock. 24, 25. Ye Frog’s Wooing. 26, 27. Ye Frog and Ye Crow. 28, 29. Mrs. Bond. 30. Xmas Day in ye Morning. 31. Little Jack…
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A Flower Wedding – Walter Crane
[1] A FLOWER WEDDING DESCRIBED·BY TWO WALLFLOWERSDECORATED·BY WALTER·CRANE CASSELL·&·COMPANY·1905 [2] A·FLOWER·WEDDING Yes, flower bells rang right merry that day, When there was a marriage of flowers, they say. [3] Young LAD’S LOVE had courted Miss Meadow·Sweet, And the two soon agreed at the Altar to meet. [4] A LILY white robe was worn by the Bride, And SWEET WILLIAM, the Groom, drest in red, at her…
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden – Walter Crane
SWEET WILLIAM with MARYGOLD Seek HEARTSEASE in the close box-border. Where, starched in their ruff’s stiff fold, DUTCH DAHLIAS prim, keep order. NARCISSUS bends over the brook, Intent upon DAFFA-DOWN-DILLY: KNIGHT’S SPUR to the LADIES BOWER To seek for the LADIES SLIPPER .
Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden – Walter Crane
“O,PROSERPINA, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou lett’st fall From Dis’s wagon! 3. daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; 4. violets, dim But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes 5 Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength, a malady Most…
The Baby’s Own Aesop Illustrated by Walter Crane
. .. CONTENTS Page 9. The Fox and the Grapes. 10. The Cock and the Pearl.—The Wolf and the Lamb. 11. The Wind and the Sun. 12. King Log and King Stork. 13. The Frightened Lion. 14. The Mouse and the Lion.—The Married Mouse. 15. Hercules and the Waggoner. 16. The Lazy Housemaids. 17. The Snake and the File.—The Fox and the Crow. 18. The…
The Forest: History & Lore – Illustrated by Walter Crane
THE NEW FOREST: ITS History and its Scenery. BY John R Wise Illustrated by Walter Crane .. .. . .. . . .. . .. . … CHAPTER XVI. THE FOLK-LORE AND PROVINCIALISMS. Anderwood Corner. Intimately bound up with the race are of course the folk-lore of a district, and what we are now pleased…
Walter Crane Golden Age of Illustrators
The Frog Prince by Walter Crane A MASQUE OF DAYS FROM THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA: NEWLY DRESSED & DECORATED BY WALTER CRANE PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1901. THE OLD YEAR being dead, and the NEW YEAR coming of age, wh: he does by Calendar Law, as soon as the breath is out…