The Woodspurge

I The Woodspurge has a small red flower, A little flower, a hill flower; It grows in the wood in a cup of clay, The Woodspurge has a small red flower.

II Grassy grass banks and leav’d trees, A little flower like a dark sun, With heart of gold and ugly face, The Woodspurge has a small red flower.

III A little flower blooming without fear, With courage enough, would bloom in fire, But the Woodspurge has a small red flower, A little flower, a hill flower.

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti