Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume I/Gentleness Pictured
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