Please help me find this poem my gran learnt this when she was 9 she's now 90?

IN PICCADILLY CIRCUS

SITS A LADY Mrs PYM

HER SHAWL IS GREY AND TIDY

HER BONNET BLACK AND TRIM

HER APRON STIFF AND SNOWY

HER BASKET DEEP AND WDE

WITH HYACINTHS AND TULIPS AND DAFFODILS INSIDE

ONE NIGHT WHEN IT WAS SNOWY

AND RAIN WAS FALLING FAST

SHE HADNT SOLD HER BLOSSOMS

AND TURNED TO GO AT LAST

TO HER DEAR LITTLE OLD COTTAGE

WHERE A GRATE THAT HAD NO FIRE IN

AND A DISH THAT HAD NO MEAT

SHE JUST PUT DOWN HER BASKET

THEN ALL THE FLOWERS FLEW OUT

SHE THOUGHT THEY LOOKED LIKE FARIES

AND SOON SHE HAD NO DOUBT

THE FLAMES ROLLED UP THE CHIMNEY

THE TABLE SET ITSELF

TURKEY FROM THE OVEN

AND PUDDING FROM THE SHELF

A QUILT OF SATIN PATCHWORK

FLEW DOWN UPON HER BED

HER CLOAK AND SQUIRREL TIPPET

WAS HANGING ON THE HEAD

HER PURSE FELL THROUGH THE RAFTERS

AND CHUCKLED WHERE IT LAY

AND LAUGHTER SHOOK THE CHIMNEY

AS THE FARIES FLEW AWAY

Please help me find this poem my gran learnt this when she was 9 she's now 90?
Considering the age you listed, this may not be an famous authored poem.



In school, memorization was standard teaching. It could be a poem someone in the school wrote, or a friend of the teacher, or even the teacher. It was not like the Gettysburg address and Preamble I had to memorize. They were not necessarily famous passages. It was an exercise in memorization.



My grandmother had one she remembered her whole life, and I don't think it was a published work, just a moral through a story she had to memorize.



If your grandmother doesn't remember the author, then it probably wasn't an important one or one the teacher felt should be memorized also.
Reply:I guess there was some comfort found in reciting the verse and remembering the days when they were young. Take comfort in that she is mentally in a good place when she recites it. She's young and carefree again. Report It
Reply:Found a lead for you! Try checking Virginia Woolf's works. She had a MISS Pym who worked with flowers. Some similarities. Might be a passage from the book Mrs. Dalloway. Read page 3 of this http://bigbang.uniroma1.it/eng... Report It
Reply:an essay on the relationship between the lead character and Miss Pym:



http://www.humboldt.edu/~amb93... Report It
Reply:Are you actually looking for the poem's title/author or the poem itself? It looks like you already have the poem.
Reply:Why do you have to find it IF you already have it?