Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 15. THE SECOND MIDSUMMER EVE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poet's Biography First Line: She became so depressed that / I really believe Last Line: West of the sun. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves | ||||||||
SHE became so depressed that I really believe, when she sat in her garden on Midsummer Eve, she never observed that far down on the right a little dark lantern was showing a light, nor heard the first magical whisper begin of a voice half an opal and half violin, nor felt how the air grew as sweet as the hush between the two thrills in the song of a thrush. The little white house grew dimmer, and seemed not a house but a little white thought she had dreamed, and each little tree was a little green tale that was sung in her dream by a nightingale -- the tale that still ends where the song had begun, East of the Moon, and West of the Sun. | 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 |
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