Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/Gentleness Pictured

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2474845Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill, Volume I — Gentleness PicturedLetitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XXII.


THE JEWELS GIVEN.


A gentle creature was that girl,
    Meek, humble, and subdued;
Like some lone flower that has grown up
    In woodland solitude.

Its soil has had but little care,
    Its growth but little praise;
And down it droops the timid head
    It has not strength to raise.

For other brighter blooms are round,
    And they attract the eye;
They seem the sunny favourites
    Of summer, earth, and sky.

The human and the woodland flower
    Hath yet a dearer part,—
The perfume of the hidden depths,
    The sweetness at the heart.



Blanchard’s title is:

GENTLENESS PICTURED


Also published as ‘The Woodland Flower’ in ‘Flowers; their moral, language and poetry’, ed. by H.G. Adams, 1844

In the Bouquet (1846), under (Violet) Viola as Modesty