Category: Short Stories
“_’Tis the hour of Fairy ban and spell; The wood-tick has kept the minutes well; He has counted them all with click and stroke, Deep in the heart of the mountain oak, And he has awakened the sentry Elve Who sleeps with him in the haunted tree, To bid him ring the hour of twelv...
_In the glowing light of a Summer sky, When the fields are clad in green. Oft in their midst, with a sunnier dye, May the Fairies’ Ring be seen! ’Tis a circle formed by the tiny...
5. dim. For, if Fairies have naughty thoughts, their wings always droop“I suppose the old tyrant, our Queen, thinks that now I am so ugly, I’ll hide myself in the Green Cavern in the Island of Ceylon! But I’ll let her see that I do not care about h...
4. PART TWOOnce upon a time there was a gentleman who married for his second wife a woman who was the haughtiest and proudest ever seen. She had two daughters who resembled her in temper....
9. PART IV_Oh! where do Fairies hide their heads, When snow lies on the hills-- When frost has spoiled their mossy beds, And crystallized their rills? Beneath the moon they cannot trip In...
2. PART TWO“_’Tis the hour of Fairy ban and spell; The wood-tick has kept the minutes well; He has counted them all with click and stroke, Deep in the heart of the mountain oak, And he has...
6. PART I1. PART ONE7. PART II8. PART III“Oh! but she is a comely child,” Said a third; “and we will lay A good-luck penny in her path, A boon for her this day,-- Seeing she broke no living wood, No live thing did affr...