English poem
Frost
by Laurence Alma-Tadema (1865–1940)
The flowers in the garden Are very cold at night; When I look out of window Their beds are hard and white.
The primrose and the scilla, The merry crocus too— O Jane! if we were flowers, What should we children do?
We'd have to sleep all naked Beneath the windy trees; Yet we should die, I know it, With even a chemise....