Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OTHERS, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY Poet's Biography First Line: From our hidden places Last Line: That earth never knew. Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas Subject(s): Fairies; Elves | ||||||||
From our hidden places By a secret path, We come in the moonlight To the side of the green rath. There the night through We take our pleasure, Dancing to such a measure As earth never knew. To song and dance And lilt without a name, So sweetly breathed 'Twould put a bird to shame. And many a young maiden Is there, of mortal birth, Her young eyes laden With dreams of earth. And many a youth entranced Moves slowly in the wildered round, His brave lost feet enchanted With the rhythm of faery sound. Music so forest wild And piercing sweet would bring Silence on blackbirds singing Their best in the ear of spring. And now they pause in their dancing, And look with troubled eyes, Earth straying children With sudden memory wise. They pause, and their eyes in the moonlight With fairy wisdom cold, Grow dim and a thought goes fluttering In the hearts no longer old. And then the dream forsakes them, And sighing, they turn anew, As the whispering music takes them, To the dance of the elfin crew. O many a thrush and a blackbird Would fall to the dewy ground, And pine away in silence For envy of such a sound. So the night through In our sad pleasure, We dance to many a measure, That earth never knew. | 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 FAIRY CHILD by JOHN ANSTER 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 A PIPER by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY |
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