A Little Freckled Person

Here is a delightful collection of short verses for children by Mary Carolyn Davies. Seeing the world through child-like imagination, these light-hearted poems are of trains, fishing, gardening, fairies and so much more.

By : Mary Carolyn Davies

01 - A little Freckled Person, The Selfish Sea, The Rabbit, The Uncritical Kitten, Next-Door People, Probation, Perhaps!, ‘Fraid Stars, The Stars, As You Would Be Done By 02 - Drawing, The Fishing-Pole, Sympathy, The Forest School, White Cherry, The Independent Kite, Practicing, Fairyland Secret Service, A Book, The Lonesome Sea, The Mountains 03 - When Dolly is Afraid, The Tree-Children, The Cockatoo, High Cost of Living, Need, Sky-Color, Left Out, The White Birch, The Playmate, Thanksgiving, The Nest 04 - The Orange, I Almost Got to Fairyland One Day, Untrained Trains, Handicapped, A Sunset, To Ships, Sea-Butterflies, Buds, The Flower Cart, Eavesdroppers, Singing Secrets 05 - The Day Before April, The Corn, If a Star, Dryad, The Duel, The Littlest Cloud, Princes, Our Share, If I were Santa’s Little Boy, The Party Dress, The Clock that Autumn Winds 06 - Conversation, The Homesick Star, The Lonesomest Fairy, The Present, Grief, The Saturdays’ Party in Fairyland, The Sorrows of a Seamstress, My Mother’s Garden is the Sea, The Gymnastic Clock, Snowflakes, Pirate Song 07 - Our Playhouse is so near to Fairyland, New Leaves, Beach Birds, The Sky’s Song, A Spring Thought, The Zoo, Six in June, Cloud Magic, Ambition, Tree Birthdays, In Autumn 08 - Star-Caste, A Newsboy, A Playground, Moons, The Discovery, Gardening is Heaps of Fun, Fairy Town, Straight Hair, Bedtime

A Little Freckled Person

They think I'm just a little girl

At study, work, or play,—

A little freckled person who

Has never much to say.

They do not know a princess oft

In golden gown am I,

With cheeks like apple petals soft

And eyes like sea or sky.

They only see my tumbled braids,

They do not know I wear

A crown with turquoises and beryls

Upon my coiled-up hair.

They do not know adventures dire

Beset me, land and sea,

That page and courtier, knight and squire,

Before me bend the knee.

That haughty ships with silken sails

Upon my bidding go—

All these, and other happy things,

They cannot, cannot know.

They only see a little girl

At study, work, or play,—

A little freckled person, who

Has never much to say!

The Selfish Sea

The sea is very, very wide:

It takes up all the room outside;

And when I stand beside the sea,

It comes right up and pushes me!

The Rabbit

A rabbit works its ears, and tries

To watch you with its rabbit eyes;

Its saucy little tail it flounces,

And when it hits the ground it bounces!