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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ELVES Matches Found: 217 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 19. THE FAIRY QUEEN PROSERPINA, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, all you ladies that do sleep! Last Line: Apes in avernus. Subject(s): Fairies; Love; Morning; Elves A CITY GARDEN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-warmed, where hudson meets the sea Last Line: My suzeraine -- the faery queen. Subject(s): Cities; Fairies; Gardens & Gardening; New York City - Colonial Period; Urban Life; Elves A FAERY SONG, SUNG BY THE PEOPLE OF FAERY OVER DIARMUID, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We who are old, old and gay Last Line: If all were told. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Legends, Irish; Elves A FAIRY FROM THE SUN-SHOWER, by ZMAI IOVAN IOVANOVICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the meadow a shower is roaming Last Line: "your sweet kisses are my goal." Alternate Author Name(s): Brankovichera, Vidosava Subject(s): Fairies; Elves A FAIRY HUNT, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who would hear the fairy horn Last Line: In the dusty tree to hear. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves A FAIRY IN ARMOR, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He put his acorn helmet on Last Line: The fiery trail of the rocket-star. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): An Elfin Knight Subject(s): Fairies; Elves A FAIRY PRINCE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prince charming, when the wizard's wand Last Line: Nought but an open grave appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fairies; Elves A MASQUE OF THE SEASONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer or winter or spring or fall Last Line: That's the reason I send them all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Plays & Playwrights; Seasons; Elves A PROPER NEW BALLAD [ENTITLED THE FAIRIES' FAREWELL], by RICHARD CORBET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, rewards and fairies Last Line: Such justices as you! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbett, Richard Variant Title(s): Farewell To The Fairies;the Fairies' Farewell Subject(s): Fairies; Farewell; Elves; Parting A WORTH WHILE THEME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As I sat and pondered, dreaming, vainly searching, vainly scheming Last Line: Than are found in loving girls and boys. Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Waiting; Nightmares; Elves AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our revels are now ended. These our actors Last Line: Is rounded with sleep. Variant Title(s): Such Stuff As Dreams;the Pageant;finale;human Life;end Of All Earthly Glory;life's Pageant;after Seeing A Masque [the Grand Style];prospero's Farewell To His Magic Subject(s): Fairies; Life Change Events; Time; Elves ALL HALLOW'S EVE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brian: tearfully sinks the pallid sun Last Line: While the sun gives light, and the red blood burn. Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Autumn; Fairies; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; All Hallows Night; Fall; Elves ALMS IN AUTUMN, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spindle-wood, spindle-wood, will you lend me, pray Last Line: They'll set the realms of fairyland all dancing with delight. Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Seasons; Fall; Elves ALTER EGO, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the morn a spirit gay Last Line: I to lose myself in thee. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Love; Relationships; Self; Elves AN ERRIS FAIRY, by HAL" "D'ARCY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Baby was lonely with mother away Last Line: The ocean will be thy burying-ground Alternate Author Name(s): "d'arcy, Hal; Subject(s): Fairies; Elves AN IMITATION (TO M.M.), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my sylvia, let us rove Last Line: Sporting o'er the velvet green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dramatists; Fairies; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Elves; Male-female Relations; Dramatists ANNA GREVILLE, COUNTESS TEMPLE, ... POET LAUREATE TO KING OF FAIRIES, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By these presents, be it known Last Line: The shortest night of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): Countess Temple Subject(s): Fairies; Elves ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell! Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement ARIEL'S SONG (2), FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the bee sucks, there suck I Last Line: Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Insects; Love; Beekeeping; Elves; Bugs ASPHODEL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carest thou naught for me, lone asphodel Last Line: Trusting thee ever, fairy asphodel. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Fairies; Elves BOUCHALLEEN BAWN, by JOHN KEEGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, pray have you heard of my bouchalleen bawn? Last Line: When again I shall meet my own bouchalleen bawn! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves BUD'S FAIRY TALE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some peoples thinks they ain't no fairies now Last Line: Fer-certain fact an' cwoss my heart it is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves BY CLODAGH'S STREAM, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a fairy in the dawn Last Line: I did not have a deaf man's dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Fairies; Elves CAILLEACH BEIN-Y-VREICH, by JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Weird wife of bein-y-vreich! Horo! Horo! Last Line: And the scowling-eyed seul-gorm. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves CAPRICE, by LINDA LAETSCH Poem Text First Line: Light shod, shaking a hoof at the dawn Last Line: But you are always gone too soon. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves CEOL SIDHE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When may is here, and every morn Last Line: And all is melody. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Music & Musicians; Elves CHRISTINE'S SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up in tentoleena land Last Line: Out of tentoleena land! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Flowers; Kisses; Elves COMPLIMENT TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gentle puck, come hither Last Line: Fetch me that flower. Variant Title(s): Maiden Meditation Subject(s): Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Fairies; Elves DALUA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard you calling, dalua dalua! Last Line: Dalua . . . Dalua . . . Dalua Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Nature; Elves DEAR LITTLE SPRITE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Dear little simple sprite, sweet little dimpled mite Last Line: Dear little sweet dimpled sprite. Subject(s): Fairies; Supernatural; Elves DIRGE FOR AOINE, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White and golden here she lies Last Line: Aoine's dead. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness ESCAPE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When foxes eat the last gold grape Last Line: The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Escapes; Fairies; Fugitives; Elves EULOGY OF THE FAIRIES, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where are the fairies now? Last Line: And slept beneath the rose hued sun? Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRIES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden-poet, come with me Last Line: Innocent and overgrown? Subject(s): Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Mythology - Gaelic; Mythology - Irish; Elves FAIRIES ON THE SEA-SHORE, BY HOWARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My home and haunt are in every leaf Last Line: Will put us and our glow-worm lamps to flight! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fairies; Paintings & Painters; Elves FAIRIES' RECALL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the blue is richest Last Line: Oh! Return, return! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRIES' SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North and south and east and west Last Line: Seeking still some work to do. Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Elves FAIRIES' SONG, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the fairies blithe and antic Last Line: Were it not for stealing, stealing. Variant Title(s): Stolen Fruit Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRIES, TAKE CARE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: A thousand blessings, puck, on you Last Line: While in those woods so dark and warm. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY CASTLES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Upon my window-pane at night Last Line: Somebody beckoning to me. Subject(s): Castles; Children; Fairies; Fantasy; Childhood; Elves FAIRY DAYS, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the old hall-fire - upon my nurse's knee Last Line: Knee! Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves FAIRY FOLK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story-books have told you Last Line: Of story-books were true. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY FOOT, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: Once I had it too Last Line: Dryad of the beech! Subject(s): Dryads; Fairies; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Elves FAIRY GLEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place where every wind Last Line: With songs like thistledown. Subject(s): Fairies; Wales; Elves; Welshmen; Welshwomen FAIRY HOMES, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've found at last the hiding-place Last Line: To gladden mortal gaze. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY MUSIC, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the fiddlers play their tunes you may sometimes hear Last Line: In tender, limpid melodies that charm the hearts of men. Subject(s): Fairies; Music & Musicians; Elves FAIRY RING, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stepped within the fairy ring Last Line: And both will understand. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY SONG, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has conn'd the lesson now Last Line: Softly, slowly: minstrel, wake! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY SONG, by ELINOR SWEETMAN Poem Text First Line: When daisies close and poppies nod Last Line: Each tender little heart to rest Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY TALE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The little elf is dressed in a floppy cap Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRY WINE, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You from east and I from west Last Line: We sipped together at the feast! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fairies; Wine; Elves FAIRYLAND (1), by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim vales - and shadowy floods Last Line: Upon their quivering wings. Variant Title(s): Fairyland Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Beauty in flight Last Line: Springs from a clod. . . . Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves FOR A CHILD NAMED KATHARINE, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wait for god as I go to sleep Last Line: "I am the child who waits for you." Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves FRAGMENTS OF THE MASQUE OF GWENDOLEN, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gwendolen: what forms are these? Last Line: (loud thunder) Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Fairies; Merlin; Arthur, King; Elves GARDEN FAIRIES, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keen was the air, the sky was very light Last Line: Certainty that sorrow closes. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves GOBLIN MARKET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening / maids heard the goblins cry Last Line: "to strengthen whilst one stands." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fairies; Gays & Lesbians; Sisters; Elves; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men GREEN AISLES, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green aisles of pullman cars Last Line: And snug delight! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves HOW A FAIRY SPENDS THE DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Can you climb to the top of a pea-vine / tall Last Line: And never minds it at all! Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Elves HUMORESQUE, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the grey geese winging Last Line: Before he hopped away. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves I SAID THERE WERE NO FAIRIES, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I said there were no fairies, yesterday Last Line: To any mortal who had hurt them so. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves IN THE WOOD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I found at the root of a tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Time; Elves; Woods INVITATION TO A PAINTER: 3, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me take you by the murvagh, sprinkled with those golden weeds Last Line: Round its rocks and sandy verges. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Fairies; Landscape; Atlantic Ocean; Elves INVOCATION TO THE FAIRIES; FOR MY SISTER'S GROTTO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fays and fairies haste away! Last Line: Let harriet view your revelry. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fairies; Elves KILMENY, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmeny gaed up the glen Last Line: And returned to the land of thought again. Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Fairies; Elves LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O [or, ah] what can ail thee, knight at arms [or, wretched wight] Last Line: And no birds sing. Subject(s): Fairies; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Love - Loss Of; Magic; Supernatural; Elves LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little orphant annie's come to our house to stay Last Line: Out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): The Elf Child Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Halloween; Hope; Nostalgia; Childhood; Elves; Optimism LITTLE SISTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "little sister, whom the fay" Last Line: That it full soon may succour thee Subject(s): Fairies; Elves MAGIC, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: There is magic on the meadow Last Line: Glad with many blossomings! Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Magic; Supernatural; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves MOON-FAIRIES, by E. K. MORSE Poem Text First Line: Out in the garden and over the lawn Last Line: Will sparkle the fairy-dropt dew. Subject(s): Fairies; Yale University; Elves MOON-FLOWERS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The moon-flowers, the moon-flowers, to sleepy splash of fountains Last Line: You've first to face the twilight and watch the moon-flowers blow! Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves NEW SPRING: 32, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the forest, in the moonlight Last Line: Or a sign that death is nigh me? Subject(s): Bells; Death; Fairies; Love; Dead, The; Elves NIGHT'S FAIRYLAND, by ELMA SCHEEL Poem Text First Line: When day has wrapped her golden robe Last Line: "day breathes her ""thank you"" prayer." Subject(s): Day; Fairies; Night; Elves; Bedtime NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NYMPHIDIA: THE COURT OF FAIRY, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old chaucer doth of thopas [or topas] tell Last Line: And thus I left them feasting. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves O LITTLE FAIRIES..., by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little fairies, under your long, long hair Last Line: What matter that I know it false and vain . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Elves OBERON'S FEAST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shapcot! To thee the fairy state Last Line: Grace by his priest; the feast is ended. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves OBERONS PALACE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the feast (my shapcot) see Last Line: He'll do no doubt; this flax is spun. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves OVERHEARD ON A SALTMARSH, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? Last Line: No. Subject(s): Beads; Fairies; Nymphs; Supernatural; Elves PARACHUTE JUMPER, by ETHEL CASE COOK Poem Text First Line: Patrick, our garden man, knows all the fairy-folk Last Line: ...Can I believe that we've both of us dreamed? Subject(s): Fairies; Parachutes; Elves PILLOW FAIRIES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen those fairy people Last Line: I will be the last to blame ye! Subject(s): Fairies; Night; Elves; Bedtime PUCK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it was puck! I saw him yesternight Last Line: Of starshine sharpened on his batwing shoe. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Night; Elves; Bedtime PUCK AND THE FAIRY, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over hill, over dale Last Line: And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Variant Title(s): Fairy's Wander-song;fairyland Subject(s): Fairies; Elves QUATORZAINS: 3. RIVULETS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purl Last Line: So I will save it, lest the elf should drown. Subject(s): Brooks; Fairies; Streams; Creeks; Elves QUATORZAINS: 7. ANOTHER FANTASTIC SIMILE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a moon-tinted primrose, with a well Last Line: And sheath their minds in scorn and self-conceit. Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Elves; Similes QUEEN MAB, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little fairy comes at night Last Line: The night as pleasant as the day. Variant Title(s): Ther Dream Fairy Subject(s): Fairies; Elves QUEEN MAB IN THE VILLAGE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I loved a fairy Last Line: We swim the golden sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Fairies; Elves RETROSPECTION, by GARNET B. FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: I note this morning how the sunshine falleth Last Line: In that blest land to which our feet are tending? Subject(s): Fairies; Nature; Past; Elves ROBIN GOODFELLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From oberon in fairyland Last Line: "so vale, vale; ho, ho, ho!" Subject(s): Fairies; Elves ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: WOOD SOLITUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In former days, in my life's young morning Last Line: As if she some fearful spectre had seen. Subject(s): Beauty; Fairies; Forests; Life; Solitude; Elves; Woods; Loneliness SIR OLAF, by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir olaf he rideth west and east Last Line: Beneath, sir olaf was lying dead. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves SONG A FAIRY WIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thrive on moonbeams dipt in dew Last Line: We find in little things. Subject(s): Fairies; Magic; Elves SONG OF THE ELF, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the poppies, with their shields Last Line: All the elfin day. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves SONG OF THE ELFIN STEERSMAN, by GEORGE HILL Poem Text First Line: One elf, I trow, is diving now Last Line: The blind bat flits -- away! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves SONG OF THE FOREST FAIRY, by ROBERT DWYER JOYCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the gold moss hangs on the mighty oak Last Line: To dance and sport so merrily there! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10B, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fancy the good fairies dressed in white Last Line: Yet letting the white peep beyond the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Flowers; Life; Seasons; Fall; Elves STANZAS, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the lake of young life is a fairy boat Last Line: And holy the haven they find at last. Subject(s): Fairies; Boats; Love; Truth; Elves TAM O' SHANTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chapman [or, chapmen] billies leave the street Last Line: Remember tan o'shanter's mare. Subject(s): Country Life; Fairies; Elves TAMLANE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O I forbid you maidens all Last Line: Ere you'd been won away Subject(s): Fairies;halloween;supernatural; Elves THE AZURE FROG: 3. REMORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I erred! The thing exists. Its little heart doth beat. But it dies be Last Line: Done? I would have tossed thee back. Imperfect is the heart. Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Remorse; Soul; Elves; Woods THE BACCHANTE TO HER BABE, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sprite, and dance! The sun is up Last Line: And squirm, and gurgle -- and grow wise! Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Babies; Fairies; Infants; Elves THE BEE-BAG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ist a brownie - a Last Line: The fairies stold away! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Grandparents; Childhood; Elves; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BEGGAR TO MAB, THE FAIRIE QUEEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please your grace, from out your store Last Line: I return your almes agen. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Fairies; Supernatural; Elves THE BELLE OF PROVINCETOWN, by ANDREW MAGNUS FLEMING Poem Text First Line: Twas in the pioneer days of old Last Line: A slave, a man servant, a mate she had found. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, A. M. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE CHILD NEXT DOOR, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child next door has a wreath on her hat Last Line: Has seen a fairy? Subject(s): Fairies; Girls; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE COTSWOLD FARMERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go Last Line: No ghostly harvester. Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers THE CULPRIT FAY, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the middle watch of a summer's night Last Line: The cock has crowed, the fays are gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE DISCOVERY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the days of elfs and fays Last Line: The fairy folk may all be found. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE DJINNS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Town, tower, / shore, deep Last Line: Of sound Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under a toadstool / crept a wee elf Last Line: First were invented. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Umbrellas; Childhood; Elves THE ELF CHILD, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Melissa was a strange, strange child Last Line: To be so mute and lie so still. Subject(s): Children; Chipmunks; Fairies; Childhood; Elves THE ELF-STROKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sir oluf has ridden far and wide Last Line: "there lay sir oluf, and he was dead" Subject(s): Death;fairies;knights & Knighthood; "dead, The;elves; THE ELFMAN, by GRACE RUTHENBURG Poem Text First Line: Who is it creeping, creeping Last Line: The night the elfman prayed could hear the holy water singing. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with marjoram, clover and thyme Last Line: The dancing elves in the moonlight mime. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE ELVES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned with thyme and marjory Last Line: Merry elves dance on the lea. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Moon; Elves THE ELVES OF WINTER, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: In each ferny, frost-flower tree Last Line: Toss back sparkles elf-men chase! Subject(s): Fairies; Winter; Elves THE EMIGRATION OF THE FAIRIES, SELECTION, by JOHN HUNTER-DUVAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few days more they drifted, ever west Last Line: As lithe as squirrels and as smug as rabbits. Alternate Author Name(s): Duvar, John Hunter Subject(s): Acadia; England; Fairies; English; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear? Last Line: The child in his arms finds he motionless, dead. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rides so late through the midnight blast? Last Line: But alack! In his arms the child lay dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE ERL-KING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O! Who rides by night through the woodland so wild Last Line: But, clasped to his bosom, the infant was dead! Subject(s): Death - Children; Fairies; Halloween; Supernatural; Death - Babies; Elves THE FAERIE TEMPLE; OR, OBERONS CHAPPELL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rare temples thou hast seen, I know Last Line: Then this, the fairies once, now thine. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAERY FOREST, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faery forest glimmered Last Line: The cold white blossoms wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAERY FOSTER-MOTHER, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright eyes, light eyes! Daughter of a fay! Last Line: Bright eyes, light eyes! Daughter of a fay! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRIES, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Up the airy mountain / down the rushy glen Last Line: And white owl's feather! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Variant Title(s): The Fairy Folk Subject(s): Fairies; Supernatural; Elves THE FAIRIES, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suffice to say, that smoother glade Last Line: Wild as the rings they trace along. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRIES, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! Last Line: Well - it's me! Subject(s): Fairies; Halloween; Elves THE FAIRIES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ye will with mab find grace Last Line: Mab will pinch her by the toe. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRIES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies, the fairies,the mischief-loving fairies Last Line: So my love cannot comfort and my presence cannot cheer. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fairies; Spells; Elves THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON LOW; A MIDSUMMER LEGEND, by MARY HOWITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And where have you been, my mary Last Line: "for I'm tired as I can be." Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves THE FAIRIES' GIFTS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a far-away country, some centuries since Last Line: "is the properest use we can make of our eyes!" Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRIES' LULLABY, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, now a roundel and a fairy song Last Line: [exeunt fairies. Titania sleeps.] Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come hither my sparrows Last Line: Of the marriage ring Variant Title(s): The Marriage Ring Subject(s): Bible; Fairies; Marriage; Mythology; Elves; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FAIRY BOY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little fairy in a tree Last Line: And love that little wrinkled boy. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY BRIDAL HYMN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song to the white-armed one Last Line: When the rose-god drinks her soul at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY CHANGELING, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brian o'byrne of omah town Last Line: "and love the weak, wee wean the best!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY CHILD, by JOHN ANSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun was sinking Last Line: In the moonlight churchyard sweetly. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY FIDDLER, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text 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 THE FAIRY FORT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went by the fairy fort Last Line: Or am I real at all? Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY IN THE MEADOW, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came, stepping over the tall grasses Last Line: Why was he afraid of me? Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Fields; Humanity; Supernatural; Elves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FAIRY MUSIC, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's many feet on the moor tonight, and Last Line: Held safe and fast from the fairy blast, and deaf at last to the ceol-sidhe! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY THORN; AN ULSTER BALLAD, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Get up, our anna dear, from the weary spinning-wheel Last Line: And ne'er was anna grace seen again. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY THRALL, by MAY (MARY) CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On gossamer nights when the moon is low Last Line: "where the elfins ride." Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE FAIRY WOOD, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Text First Line: It was the fairy wood Last Line: Song seemed no less than color on the wing. Subject(s): Fairies; Forests; Elves; Woods THE FAIRY'S SPELL, by FREDERICK W. POOLE Poem Text First Line: Hearkene ye and heede me welle Last Line: And softly whisper low. Subject(s): Fairies; Immortality; Night; Elves; Bedtime THE FIND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I took a reed and blew a tune Last Line: Upon a fairy mound. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Fairies; Mythology - Irish; Reeds; Elves THE FIREFLY LAMPS, by ARLETTA B. GRAVES Poem Text First Line: There must have been fairies in that magic place Last Line: We'd breath a prayer that our lights would keep. Subject(s): Fairies; Lamps; Spring; Elves THE FORSAKEN MERMAN, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, dear children, let us away Last Line: "the kings of the sea." Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Mothers; Sea; Elves; Ocean THE HERESY OF AN ELDER ON NOT BELIEVING IN FAIRIES, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't believe in fairies;- / I've something else to do Last Line: I shall know that I am blind. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish THE HOME FAIRIES, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You tip-toe gently to her bed Last Line: God help the home where they do not. Subject(s): Fairies; Home; Elves THE HORN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Is that a horn I hear Last Line: Hushed the shepherd's call. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LANAWN SHEE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Powdered and perfumed the full bee Last Line: We two shall move to fairy places. Subject(s): Bees; Fairies; Happiness; Insects; Ireland; Mythology - Irish; Poppies; Beekeeping; Elves; Joy; Delight; Bugs; Irish THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I bid her clean the pots for supper Last Line: The lonely of heart is withered away.') Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE LAND OF USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where's the land of used-to-be, does the little baby wonder? Last Line: Comes dancing down the dewy walks to welcome me and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves THE LEPRECAUN, OR THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Little cowboy, what have you heard Last Line: Was gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE LIFTING OF THE MIST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the long day the vapours played Last Line: That greets the lifting of the mist. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Fairies; Games; Elves; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE LIGHT-HEARTED FAIRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh what is so merry, so merry, heigh ho!" Last Line: With a hey and a heigh and a ho! Subject(s): Fairies;happiness; Elves;joy;delight THE LITTLE BRETHREN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brendan went to the greenwood Last Line: Wept: and he heard their tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Brendan, Saint (484-578); Fairies; Flowers; God; Jesus Christ; Soul; Tears; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Elves THE LITTLE ELF-MAN, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a little elf-man once Last Line: "as you are big for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Variant Title(s): The Little Elf Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Elves; Fancy THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves THE LOVELINESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, what a long and loitering way Last Line: Forever brightening. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; May (month); Youth; Elves THE OTHERS, by JAMES SULLIVAN STARKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From our hidden places Last Line: That earth never knew. Alternate Author Name(s): O'sullivan, Seumas Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE PIXY PEOPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was just a very Last Line: Their old honey-song! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE PLEA OF THE MIDSUMMER FAIRIES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in that mellow season of the year Last Line: Like flocking linnets, vanish'd in a cloud. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE POINTED PEOPLE, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know who they are Subject(s): Fairies; Supernatural; Elves THE QUEEN OF ELFLAND'S NOURICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I heard a cow low, a bonnie cow low" Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE QUEEN OF FAIRIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come follow, follow me" Last Line: Where we the night before have been Variant Title(s): The Fairy Queen;the Fairies;a Fairy Song Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 10. HER UNRELIABILITY IN THE MATTER OF NAMES, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then as to her name, the pitiful Last Line: To have one at all. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 11. HER ACERBITY IN THE MATTER OF CLOTHES, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then, as to her dresses, / she kept in the attic Last Line: To go with her hat. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 12. THE GARDEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had other strange habits, / e.G. Paraffin Last Line: All over the place. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 13. THE LAMENTABLE ABSENCE OF CALLERS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then, as day followed day, / she sat in the hall Last Line: One's self to one's self. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 14. DESPAIR, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was to be done? It / would have been quicker Last Line: It covered the note. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 15. THE SECOND MIDSUMMER EVE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She became so depressed that / I really believe Last Line: West of the sun. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 16. THE DANCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then still in her dream / she held out her hand Last Line: A different summer. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 17. JOURNEY'S END, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then as she danced, / forgetting the spell Last Line: Dancing delicately. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 2. DIFFICULTIES IN FAIRYLAND, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But how had she come there? / and wherefore? And when? Last Line: The rest of them wrong Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 5. HER DEPARTURE FROM FAIRYLAND, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She left with a dash / in the little gold cab Last Line: An empty hand. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 6. HER ARRIVAL IN LONDON, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had packed in a hurry / her wand, and her wings Last Line: She reached london bridge, Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 7. THE HOUSING SHORTAGE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She found, to her horror, / that nobody clinches Last Line: Kensington. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 8. UNASSISTED BUILDING SCHEME, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So like any of us / kensington or hyde parkers Last Line: She added the lot. Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 9. TROUBLES WITH THE STAFF, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And besides, she omitted / to notice, the staff Last Line: And kept them by tact. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE RUSHES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rushes nod by the river Last Line: My feet in rhyme with her feet. Subject(s): Fairies; Feet; Elves THE SHADOW PEOPLE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old lame bridget doesn't hear Last Line: And with the shadow people be. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE SONG OF THE FAIRIES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pile on the soil; thrust on the soil Last Line: "from the bridging of lamrach shall gain, or rue?" Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I went out to the hazel wood Last Line: The golden apples of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Imagination; Men; Supernatural; Vision; Witchcraft & Witches; Elves; Fancy THE STOLEN CHILD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Where dips the rocky highland Last Line: From a world more full of weeping than he can understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fairies; Supernatural; Elves THE SUNKEN BELL, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou buzzing, golden wight -- whence com'st thou here? Last Line: [dawn breaks. He dies.] Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves THE SYLVAN FAIRY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then next a merry woodsman, clad in green Last Line: "spare us our lives for the green dryad's sake." Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE TEMPLE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A way enchased with glass and beads Last Line: Goes to the feast that's now provided. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 7. KALLUNDBORG CHURCH, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build at kallundborg by the sea Last Line: Stood helva of nesvek and esbern snare! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE THREE BEGGARS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas autumn daybreak gold and wild Last Line: And blessed the good st. Ann. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Fairies; Elves THE THREE WISHES, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Well, now,' drawled the fairy, 'I'll grant you three wishes Last Line: "for self-washing dishes -- the thing's -- bolshe-vistic!" Subject(s): Fairies; Housekeeping; Wishes; Elves THE WEAVER OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In polar noons when the moonshine glimmers Last Line: The weaver of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Girls; Laughter; Snow; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Elves THE WEE STRANGER, by JOHN HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noo, whatna totum's this we've got Last Line: God bless the bonnie bairns! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE WISE FAIRY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a rough, wild country Last Line: "that a golden blessing lies." Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE WISHING MOON, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunny warm! Shadow cool! Sisters, do you follow? Last Line: End Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE WODDSY ONES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear them creeping, creeping, creeping Last Line: And I drift away to nothing all too soon! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THOMAS THE RHYMER [RYMER], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: True thomas lay on huntlie bank Last Line: True thomas on earth was never seen Variant Title(s): Thomas Rymer Subject(s): Fairies;love;thomas Of Erceldoune (1220-1297); Elves;thomas The Rhymer;thomas The Rymer;thomas Learmont THREE WHITE BIRDS OF ANGUS, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Last night when all the stars were still Last Line: The feet of morn came whisperingly Subject(s): Birds; Fairies; Elves TIR NA N-OG, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Text First Line: I heard the summer calling across great breadths of sea Last Line: And the landwind mocks my longing and the sea-wind saddens all. Subject(s): Fairies; Summer; Youth; Elves TO A CHILD (ROSAMUND), by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies have been busy while you slept Last Line: The innermost rose of the re-flowered year. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves TO AN ELF ON A BUTTERCUP, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cunning little fairy Last Line: Or whether I am you! Subject(s): Elves TO CHILDREN: 1. FAIRY SONG, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While clouds yet slumbered in their fold Last Line: Yes, I was elfland-born! Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves TO CHILDREN: 4. THE FAIRY REALM, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, we smiled our silent pity when they mocked our faith as fond! Last Line: And tonight we'll be a-dancing at a dazzling fairy ball! Subject(s): Children; Fairies; Childhood; Elves TO MOTHER FAIRIE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good old mother fairie Last Line: Wise enough to go? Subject(s): Fairies; Elves TO THE LEANAN SIDHE (FAIRY MUSE), by THOMAS BOYD Poem Text First Line: Where is thy lovely perilous abode? Last Line: And fares into the night. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves TRANSFORMATION, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time when, by the forest falls Last Line: Part of the myths that I pursue in vain. Subject(s): Fairies; Elves TRICKSTERS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am bewildered still and teased by elves Last Line: Archangels, heroes, -- rascals yet unhung! Subject(s): Fairies; Elves VERY NEARLY!, by QUEENIE SCOTT-HOPPER Poem Text First Line: I never quite saw fairy-folk Last Line: I very, very nearly did! Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Elves WATER LILIES; A FAIRY SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come away, elves! While the dew is sweet Last Line: And the life of the lily may not be long. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fairies; Flowers; Lilies; Elves WE TWO SHALL MOVE TO FAIRY PLACES, by HOWARD PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Claimed of gold heat Last Line: "in a wind, like the trot of a red horse, on a walk, trotted for miles!" Subject(s): Dawn; Fairies; Storms; Sunrise; Elves WINE OF EGLANTINE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am drunk with the honey wine Last Line: Of the fairies bear those bowls so new! Variant Title(s): Elfin Music Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Fairies; Elves YOU QUITE MISTAKE, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You quite mistake the sprite you chase Last Line: To my dear kitchen cats and wenches. Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Elves YOUNG EDEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed from a fairy flagon Last Line: The apple in her hand! 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