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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAIRY FIDDLER, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis I go fiddling, fiddling Last Line: And the horse that draws the plough Subject(s): Fairies; Fiddles; Musical Instruments; Elves | |||
'Tis I go fiddling, fiddling, By weedy ways forlorn: I make the blackbird's music Ere in his breast 'tis born: The sleeping larks I waken 'Twixt the midnight and the morn. No man alive has seen me, But women hear me play Sometimes at the door or window, Fiddling the souls away,-- The child's soul and the colleen's Out of the covering clay. None of my fairy kinsmen Make music with me now: Alone the raths I wander' Or ride the whitethorn bough; But the wild swans they know me, And the horse that draws the plough | 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 THE DARK MAN by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER |
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