Category: Poetry
INTRODUCTION—Revival of the Romantic element in modern poetry—Origin of the term “Fairy”—Fays of early French literature—Source of the conceptions at the base of English fairy poetry—Huon de Bordeaux—Oberon—Spiritual traditions of Gothic and Celtic nations—Lineage of the fairi...
INTRODUCTION—Revival of the Romantic element in modern poetry—Origin of the term “Fairy”—Fays of early French literature—Source of the conceptions at the base of English fairy p...
2. Part 2A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit...
3. Part 3The grasshopper, gnat, and fly Serve for our minstrelsie; Grace said, we dance awhile, And so the time beguile; And if the moon doth hide her head, The gloe-worm lights us home...
4. Part 4Hark! hark! the sweet-voiced choir renew Their symphony! All quivering with a rainbow hue In ecstasy, Our spangled wings now waft us high, Through the mazy paths of the starry s...
5. Part 5“Dear Puck,” quoth he, “my wife is gone; As e’er thou lov’st King Oberon, Let everything but this alone, With vengeance and pursue her: Bring her home alive or dead; Or that vil...
6. Part 6_Third._ True, Prince Loftling’s chin, so grand is he, Is where another’s nose would be; His proud backbone the wrong way bends With nobleness. He condescends To come in state t...
7. Part 7He turns, and lo! on either side The ripples on his path divide; And the track o’er which his boat must pass Is smooth as a sheet of polished glass. Around, their limbs the sea-...
8. Part 8Bonnie Kilmeny gaed up the glen; But it wasna to meet Duneira’s men, Nor the rosy monk of the isle to see, For Kilmeny was pure as pure could be. It was only to hear the yorling...
9. Part 9Silent sate the maid and monarch many a moment, till, quoth he, “Knowest thou not, unhappy child, the woe thou hast wrought in faërie? Know’st thou not that by the name which el...
10. Part 10He knew not the path of the lonely strath, Where the Elfin-King went his round; Or he never had gone with the Green Knight on, Nor trod the charmèd ground.
11. Part 11“Oh thou, who lovest the shadow,” cried A voice, low whisp’ring by his side, “Now turn and see,”—here the youth’s delight Seal’d the rosy lips of the Mountain Sprite.
12. Part 12All, alas! and well-away! “Oh, sister Ellen, sister sweet, Come with me to the hill I pray, And I will prove that blessed freet!” They rose with soft and silent feet, They left...
13. Part 13True, as I say, he came back once more, With a fluster’d air, and in anger; I vow He look’d like an alderman lecturing the poor, But meaning at last to—_unlock the cage-door_! M...
14. Part 14Welcome, ladies! to the cell, Where the blameless Pixies dwell, But thou, sweet nymph! proclaimed our faery queen, With what obeisance meet Thy presence shall we greet? For lo!...
15. Part 15“_London Figaro._”—“It cannot be said that the author is partial; clergy and Nonconformist divines, Liberals and Conservatives, lawyers and tradesmen, all come under his lash......