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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FROST ELVES, by MARY L. WOLVERTON
First Line: In the solemn stillness of the winter nights
Last Line: The merry frost-elves go.
Subject(s): Courtship
First Line: In the solemn stillness of the winter nights
Last Line: The merry frost-elves go.
Subject(s): Courtship
IN the solemn stillness of the winter nights,
When the sky is sparkling with its frost of stars,
Up from every snow-drift come the tiny sprites
Who tell in fairy frost-work tales of elfin-land.
Merrily they frolic
In the dim starlight,
Casting flickering shadows
With their robes of white;
Building airy castles
Along the water's edge,
Scattering elfin diamonds
On every bush and hedge;
Painting on our windows,
With many a dainty stroke,
The glistening hills and valleys
Where dwell the gay frost folk.
When the first stray sunbeam
Comes glimmering o'er the snow,
Back to the earth like snow-flakes
The merry frost-elves go.
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