The Art of
Cicely Mary Barker
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The Song of The Speedwell Fairy
Clear blue are the skies;
My petals are blue;
As beautiful, too,
As bluest of eyes.
The heavens are high:
By the field~path I grow
Where wayfarers go,
And "Good Speed," say I:
See, here is a prize
Of wonderful worth:
A weed of the earth,
As blue as the skies!"
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| Spring magic
The World is very old;
But year by year
It groweth new again
When buds appear.
The World is very old,
and sometimes sad;
But when the daisies come
The World is glad.
The World is very old;
But every Spring
It groweth young again,
and fairies sing.
by Cicely
Mary Barker
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| The Song of The Crocus Fairies
Crocus of yellow, new and gay;
Mauve and purple, in brave array;
Crocus white
Like a cup of light,~
Hundreds of them are smiling up,
Each with a flame in its shining cup,
By the touch of the warm and welcome sun
Opened suddenly, Spring's begun!
Dance then, fairies, for joy, and sing
The song of the coming again of Spring.
by Cicely
Mary Barker
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The Song of The Celadine Fairy
Before the hawthorn leaves
unfold,
Or buttercups put forth their gold,
By every sunny footpath shine
The stars of Lesser Celandine.
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The Song of The Windflower
Fairy
While human~folk slumber,
The fairies espy
Stars without number
Sprinkling the sky.
The Winter's long sleeping,
Like night~time is done;
But day~stars are leaping
To welcome the sun.
Star~like they sprinkle
The wildwood with light;
Countless they twinkle~
The Windflowers white!
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The Song of The Daisy Fairy
Come to me and play with me,
I'm the babies flower,
Make a necklace gay with me,
Spend the whole long day with me,
Till the sunset hour.
I must say Good~night, you know,
Till tomorrow's playtime;
Close my petals tight, you know,
Shut the red and white, you know,
Sleeping till the daytime.
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The Song of The Dandelion Fairy
Here's the Dandelion's rhyme;
See my leaves with tooth-like edges;
Blow my clocks to tell the time;
See me flaunting by the hedges,
In the meadow, in the lane,
Gay and naughty in the garden;
Pull me up ~ I grow again,
Asking neither leave nor pardon.
Sillies, what are you about
With you spades and hoes of iron?
You can never drive me out ~
Me, the dauntless Dandelion!
by Cicely Mary Barker
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The Song of The May Fairy
My buds, they cluster small
and green,
The sunshine gaineth heat:
Soon shall the hawthorn tree be clothed
As with a snowy sheet.
O magic sight, the hedge is white.
My scent is very sweet;
And lo, where I am come indeed,
The Spring and Summer meet.
by Cicely Mary Barker
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Books
and other works about Cicely Mary Barker:
Flower
Fairies of the Flowers and Trees, London, Blackie, 1950.
Lively Stories, Macmillan, 1954.
The Flower Fairy Picture Book, London, Blackie, 1955.
Lively Numbers, Macmillan, 1957.
Lively, Words, Macmillan, 1961.
The Sand, the Sea and the Sun, Gibson, 1970.
Flower Fairies of the Winter, London, Blackie, 1985, Frederick Warne,
1990.
Simon the Swan, London, Blackie, 1988.
Flower Fairies of the Seasons, Bedrick/Blackie, 1988.
A Little Book of Prayers and Hymns, London, Frederick Warne, 1994.
A Flower Fairies Treasury, London, Frederick Warne, 1997.
The images displayed on this site are copyrighted
material and owned by the artists who painted them.
I do not sell any of the art work represented.
Links have been provided when ever possible to authorized sites where
you might be able to obtain copies.
The World of Cicely Mary Barker
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