Lyric Poem · For Kids
The Flowers
1All the names I know from nurse:
2Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
3Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
4And the Lady Hollyhock.
5Fairy places, fairy things,
6Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
7Tiny trees for tiny dames —
8These must all be fairy names!
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“The Flowers” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/the-flowers
Quick facts
- Poem
- The Flowers
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 16 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- For Kids, Nature
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 16 lines · 4 quatrains
- Line length
- Mostly 7-syllable lines.
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBThe Flowers by robert-louis-stevenson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 682ab4a6d2c2f39a…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.