Uploaded on July 28, 2011
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, has washed her lace
(She chose a summer day)
And hung it in a grassy place
To whiten, if it may.
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, has left it there,
And slept the dewy night;
Then waked, to find the sunshine fair,
And all the meadows white.
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, is dead and gone
(She died a summer’s day),
But left her lace to whiten on
Each weed-entangled way!
—Mary Leslie Newton
Favorite Poems Old and New
edited by Helen Ferris
07.28.2023: Queen Anne’s Lace has become one of my favorite Maine wildflowers.