Trolls and pixies unbeknown Lodged beneath a sunken stone! Their malevolence makes scream Children startled in a dream. O their hundred flickering eyes Dazzled with day's enterprise -- Skimble-skamble black they run Scared to rout by shining sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROTHER AND SISTER by MARY ANN EVANS WHEN I'M KILLED by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BLACKBIRD by ALFRED TENNYSON THE WHITE BIRDS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS PEPITA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A SPIRITUAL LEGEND by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY FORT GRISWOLD, SEPT. 6, 1781 by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |