Oh to be in England / Now that April's there
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945
Illustration
1909
Signed E F Brickdale
Source: Browning, frontispiece
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Like Brickdale's other illustrations for the book, this one capture the mood and atmosphere rather than the specifics of the poem. The scene of young flower-gatherers surrounded by the evidence of spring does, however, match the last lines of the poem: "All will be gay when noontide wakes anew / The buttercups, the little children’s dower..."
