#marjorie barrows

[hyperfixating-on-literature]

20 poems about fairies, goblins, and the strange beautiful things hidden deep inside the woods

(written in the English language)

A Faery Song - W. B. Yeats - https://allpoetry.com/A-Faery-Song

Finding Fairies - Marjorie Barrows - http://plover.net/~agarvin/faerie/poems/finding_fairies.html

Goblin Feet - J. R. R. Tolkien - https://www.poeticous.com/j-r-r-tolkien/goblin-feet

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad - John Keats -  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44475/la-belle-dame-sans-merci-a-ballad

Lament of the Last Leprechaun - Nora Hopper - https://dvpp.uvic.ca/poems/yellowbook/1894/pom_1822_lament_of_the_last_leprechaun.html

Over Old Hills and Far Away - J. R. R. Tolkien - https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Over_Old_Hills_and_Far_Away   

Overheard On A Saltmarsh - Harold Monro - https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/overheard-on-a-saltmarsh   

Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard - Leigh Hunt - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44436/song-of-fairies-robbing-an-orchard

The Changeling - Charlotte Mew - https://www.poetry-archive.com/m/the_changeling.html

The Faëry Chasm - William Wordsworth - https://throughtheeyeofapegasus.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/the-faery-chasm-poem-by-william-wordsworth/

The Fairies - William Allingham - https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/fairies/

The Fairy - William Blake - https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/fairy-2

The Fairy Child - Lord Dunsany - https://kalaity.com/2012/06/11/the-fairy-child/

The Fairy Pendant - W. B. Yeats - https://allpoetry.com/The-Fairy-Pendant  

The Fairy Reel - Neil Gaiman - https://endicottstudio.typepad.com/poetrylist/the-fairy-reel-by-neil-gaiman.html

The Lady of Shalott - Lord Tennyson - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45359/the-lady-of-shalott-1832

The Shores of Faëry - J. R. R. Tolkien - https://lyricstranslate.com/en/j-r-r-tolkien-shores-faery-lyrics.html

The Stolen Child - W. B. Yeats - https://poets.org/poem/stolen-child

Tinfang Warble - J. R. R. Tolkien - https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tinfang_Warble_(poem)

And if you enjoy this sort of content, PLEASE check out Arthur Rackham's illustrations. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Arthurian legend, Goblin Market, good old English fairies... he does it all and they are so beautiful.

[thefugitivesaint]

Hazel Frazee (1899-1972), ''Child Life'', Vol. 2, #10, Oct. 1923  Source

[woodlyndefae]

When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets, Did you ever find a fairy near some budding little thickets,... And when she sees you creeping up to get a closer peek She tumbles through the daffodils, a playing hide and seek."

Marjorie Barrows

[i-believe-in-fairyland]

When the winds of march are wakening

the crocuses and the crickets,

did you ever find a fairy near

some budding little thickets,

a straightening her golden wings and

combing out her hair?

she's there!

and when she sees you creeping up

to get a closer peek

she tumbles through the daffodils

a playing hide and seek,

and creeping into the tulips till

you can't find where she's hid?

mine did!

have you ever, ever come across

a little toadstool elf

a reading by a firefly lamp

and laughing to himself,

or a saucy fairy queen upon

her favorite dragonfly?

so've i!

it's fun to see a fairy flutter

off a catkin boat,

and wrap her fairy baby in

a pussy willow coat;

oh, don't you love the fairies

and their babies, too? i do!

and the round sun rolling by

heeding no such things as i.

-finding fairies, by Marjorie Barrows