Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAIRY FORT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: As I went by the fairy fort Last Line: Or am I real at all? Subject(s): Fairies; Elves | ||||||||
As I went by the fairy fort I heard a laughing wee voice say -- "Whisht! Be these humans rale at all? I'll not believe it, nay!" "Aye, but ye see the crayturs plain?" "But seein' niver makes it true, No more that not to see be proof; 'T is what they think and do. "They just have faith in what they see, And they be blind as midday owls -- Except the little childher dear, And some with childher sowls. "They chase unrale things all day long -- Money and aise and fame and power -- With niver time to pipe and dream, Or gossip with a flower. "Such stupid things they be, and quare! I'll not believe in them, not I! Come, let us pipe a rale, true lilt, And lave the crayturs by." As I went by the fairy fort I heard a piping sweet and small; I wonder, are the Wee Folk real, Or am I real at all? | 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 CHARM SAID UNDER AN OAK by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN |
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