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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAIRY CHILD, by JOHN ANSTER Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun was sinking Last Line: In the moonlight churchyard sweetly. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves | |||
The summer sun was sinking With a mild light, calm and mellow; It shone on my little boy's bonnie cheeks, And his loose locks of yellow. The robin was singing sweetly, And his song was sad and tender; And my little boy's eyes, while he heard the song, Smiled with a sweet, soft splendor. My little boy lay on my bosom While his soul the song was quaffing; The joy of his soul had tinged his cheek, And his heart and his eye were laughing. I sate alone in my cottage, The midnight needle plying; I feared for my child, for the rush's light In the socket now was dying; There came a hand to my lonely latch, Like the wind at midnight moaning; I knelt to pray, but rose again, For I heard my little boy groaning. I crossed my brow and I crossed my breast, But that night my child departed,-- They left a weakling in his stead, And I am broken-hearted! O, it cannot be my own sweet boy, For his eyes are dim and hollow; My little boy is gone--is gone, And his mother soon will follow. The dirge for the dead will be sung for me, And the mass be chanted meetly, And I shall sleep with my little boy, In the moonlight churchyard sweetly. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FAERY FOREST by SARA TEASDALE THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FAIRIES by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE FORSAKEN MERMAN by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE LITTLE ELF-MAN by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS TAM O' SHANTER by ROBERT BURNS A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19. THE FAIRY QUEEN PROSERPINA by THOMAS CAMPION A PROPER NEW BALLAD [ENTITLED THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL] by RICHARD CORBET THE CULPRIT FAY by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE TO DEAN-BOURN, A RUDE RIVER IN DEVON, BY WHICH ... HE LIVED by ROBERT HERRICK |
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