Unknown writer

Wild Asters

Summary


Wild Asters is a short poem built as a tender conversation between a child and the white and purple flowers beside a brook. The child asks where the asters found their starry eyes, and the flowers answer with a playful, heavenly secret about baby angels at play. Their reply is light, affectionate and full of wonder, turning a simple meadow moment into a small glimpse of the sky. It is a brief verse to savor aloud.

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Child
White and purple asters, watching by the brook,
Tell me where you got your starry eyes.

A child kneels by a brook asking white and purple asters about their starry eyes in the poem Wild Asters.

Asters
Dearie, in their play the baby angels took
Blossoms from the garden of the skies.
Tossed them downward to us over heaven’s wall,
And we caught and kept them,—that is all.

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Unknown Writer is the name we give to the uncredited voices behind many cherished verses, and this one reads like a classic piece of nature poetry for children. Its question-and-answer format lets the flowers speak directly, a device often used in old-fashioned nursery and garden verse.