pussy-clover

Updated: May 2, 2025

But a little red-haired playmate with whom I became intimate used to take me off with her into the fields, where, sitting, on the edge of a disused cartway fringed with pussy-clover, she poured into my ears the most remarkable narratives of acquaintances she had made with people who lived under the ground close by us, in my father's orchard.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)