Real Fairies

Alfred Tennyson, one of the most well-loved Victorian poets, gives us this bewitching poem about the glories of nature and the power of myth which enable us to “hear” voices from a wilder, stranger realm… Read more »

From The Book of Fairy Poetry, published in 1920, this is one of several fairy poems written by Fiona Macleod which deals with fairies on a powerful, adult, and real level. One of my favorite passages illustrates this point: “They laugh and are glad, And are terrible: When their lances shake, Every green reed quivers.” This is definitely not a child’s fairy poem– Read more »

Taken from The Book of Fairy Poetry, published in 1920:

“Over the hills and far away”–

That is the tune I heard one day,

When heather-drowsy I lay and listened

And watched where the stealthy sea-tide glistened.

Beside me there on the Hills of Ruel Read more »