Edith Nesbit/ Gnarly Tree/ The Tree of Life
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Edith Nesbit
According to her biographer Julia Briggs, Nesbit was “the first modern writer for children”: “(Nesbit) helped to reverse the great tradition of children’s literature inaugurated by [Lewis] Carroll, [George] MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels.” Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the children’s adventure story
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St. Valentine’s Day
The South is a dream of flowers
With a jewel for sky and sea,
Rose-crowns for the dancing hours,
Gold fruits upon every tree;
But cold from the North The wind blows forth
That blows my love to me.
The stars in the South are gold
Like lamps between sky and sea;
The flowers that the forests hold.
Like stars between tree and tree;
But little and white Is the pale moon’s light
That lights my love to me.
In the South the orange grove
Makes dusk by the dusky sea,
White palaces wrought for love
Gleam white between tree and tree,
But under bare boughs Is the little house
Warm-lit for my love and me.
Edith Nesbit
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February 7th, 2008 at 1:29 am
That’s a mighty fine tree. Any idea if it has a name? Wait, of course it has a name. Do you know what it is? I’m enjoying your “city” photos, too.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I don’t know what kind of tree it is. Next time I am back there If I remember I will look around. They usually have a tag somewhere. Thanks for your comment.