Fairy Poems

Table Of Contents

Foreword by Lynne Greenberg
 
ENCHANTED PLACES
THOMAS DE ERCIDOUN from Ballad of Thomas the Rhymer
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
GERALD GRIFFIN HyBrasail – The Isle of the Blest
MICHAEL COIMÍN from The Lay of Oisín in the Land of Youth
SARA TEASDALE The Faëry Forest
ARTHUR SYMONS In the Wood of Finvara
ANONYMOUS from Sir Orfeo
MICHAEL DRAYTON from Nymphidia: The Fairy Court
A. E. (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) The Well of All Healing
ROBERT SOUTHEY The Fountain of the Fairies
ANONYMOUS Lovely Lady
JAMES HOGG from Kilmeny
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY The Voyagers
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE St. Andrew’s
CATHAL Ó SEARCAIGH The Berry Hollow of Lag Na Sméar
 
FAIRY FOLK
EDMUND SPENSER from The Faerie Queene
SIR WALTER SCOTT from Tam Lin
PAUL DUNBAR The Discovery
ANONYMOUS The Fairy Host
THOMAS BOYD To the Leanán Sidhe
DENISE LEVERTOV The Elves
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from Romeo and Juliet
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY from Queen Mab
VICTOR HUGO A Fairy
DORA SIGERSON SHORTER The Banshee
ANONYMOUS Vilas
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The Púca
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON from Idylls of the King
WALLACE STEVENS The Dwarf
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The Fairy
CHARLOTTE DACRE Will O’ The Wisp
CLAUDE MCKAY The Snow Fairy
A. J. ODASSO Fairy Beekeeper
 
MERMAIDS AND WATERFOLK
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Sea-Fairies
HEINRICH HEINE The Loreley
SYLVIA PLATH Lorelei
CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO Watermaid
T. S. ELIOT from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
PABLO NERUDA Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks
ERIK JOHAN STAGNELIUS Näcken (The Nixie)
MARTIN OTT Return to Mermaid
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS from A Vision of the Mermaids
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA La Sirena
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A Sea-Spell
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER “Naiad, whose sliding lips were mine”
 
QUEER FAIRIES
MICHAEL FIELD (KATHERINE BRADLEY and EDITH COOPER) The Iris Was Yellow, The Moon Was Pale
LANGSTON HUGHES Café: 3 a.m.
CLAUDE MCKAY To O. E. A.
JOHN WIENERS To Charles on His Home
JAMES BROUGHTON only when i
OLIVER BAEZ BENDORF Rainwater From Certain Enchanted Streams
MICHAEL RUMAKER from The Fairies Are Dancing All Over the World
 
FAIRY MUSIC AND DANCE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE from The Tempest
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE from Songs of the Pixies
ANONYMOUS Cusheen Loo
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Elfenlied (Fairy Song)
EDUARD MÖRIKE Elfenlied (Fairy Song)
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dong, Sounds the Brass in the East
NORA CHESSON HOPPER The Fairy Fiddler
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR The Corn-Stalk Fiddle
SU SHE Lyrics to the Tune “Fairy Grotto”
ANN RADCLIFFE from The Romance of the Forest
JOHN MILTON from A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Faëry Chasm
MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Faëry Morris
SIMON STEWARD The Fairies Fegaries
FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Fairies
SIR WALTER SCOTT The Fairy Dance
NEIL GAIMAN The Faery Reel
 
FAIRY MISCHIEF AND MALEVOLENCE
THOMAS RAVENSCROFT The Fayries’ Daunce
LEIGH HUNT Song of Fairies Robbing Orchard
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM The Fairies
CICELY FOX SMITH Pixie-Led
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI from Goblin Market
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Erlklönig (The Erl-King)
MATTHEW ARNOLD from Tristram and Iseult
ANONYMOUS Swedish Ballad: Sir Olof and the Fairies
 
SEDUCTIONS AND ABDUCTIONS
JOHN KEATS La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad
MARIE DE FRANCE from Sir Launfal
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Song of Wandering Aengus
WALTER DE LA MARE Happy, Happy It Is To Be
MOIREEN FOX CHEAVASA The Fairy Lover
ETHNA CARBERY The Love-Talker
DORA SIGERSON SHORTER The Wind on the Hills
SAMUEL LOVER The Haunted Spring
MARY C. G. BYRON The Fairy Thrall
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Stolen Child
JOHN ANSTER The Fairy Child
PATIENCE AGBABI Double
SEROJINI NAIDU Village-Song
CHARLOTTE MEW The Changeling
THEODORA GOSS The Changeling
 
FAIRY SPELLS AND CHARMS
ROBERT HERRICK The Night-Piece, to Julia
ANONYMOUS Gaelic Charm Against Fairy Influence
ANONYMOUS Song to Quell the Elf
THOMAS CAMPION Ayre XVIII
JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN The Romance of the Fairy Cure
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT from The Ordinary
MICHAEL DRAYTON from Nymphidia: The Fairy Court
BEN JONSON The Fairy Beam Upon You
 
ABSINTHE, THE GREEN FAIRY
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Poison
DELMIRA AGUSTINI Another Lineage
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Rhenish Night
PAUL VALÉRY The Vain Dancers
CARL DANIEL FÄLLSTRÖM Absinthe
RAOUL PONCHON L’Absinthe
ANONYMOUS I Am the Green Fairy
 
SYMBOLIC FAIRIES
LESLIE COULSON From the Somme
ROBERT FROST The Spoils of the Dead
SARA TEASDALE Silence
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Holidays
FIONA MACLEOD (WILLIAM SHARPE) Dreams Within Dreams
HENRIK JOHAN IBSEN In the Picture Gallery
SEROJINI NAIDU To My Fairy Fancies
WILLIAM WINTER Unwritten Poems
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The Sick Muse
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Another
E. E. CUMMINGS from Post Impressions
WILLIAM BLAKE The Fairy
FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON Lied der Liebe (Song of Love)
SIOBHAN CAMPBELL Quickthorn
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Sorrowing Love
ANNE SEXTON Old Dwarf Heart
MONICA FERRELL Myths of the Disappearance
COUNTEE CULLEN Lines To My Father
ELINOR WYLIE Escape
WILLIAM BROWNE from Visions
EMILY BRONTË A Little Budding Rose
CHARLOTTE SMITH Sonnet LXIII: The Gossamer
EMILY DICKINSON Within my Garden, rides a Bird
SOPHIE JEWETT Across the Border
 
FATE OF THE FAIRIES
SHU¯ZO¯ TAKIGUCHI Fairy Distance
MARIE ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE PITT The Lost Fairies
VALERY BRYUSOV Golden Fairies
A. E. HOUSMAN XXI
LANGSTON HUGHES After Many Springs
RICHARD CORBET Farewell Rewards and Fairies
JOHN RUSKIN from The Emigration of the Sprites
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Fairies’ Recall
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Doubt No More that Oberon
W. H. AUDEN Belief