Fairy Poems And Poetry

Imagine reading fairy poems and poetry about fairies, elves, leprechauns and dwarves!

Well here you can find poems and poetry about fairies - all magical and enchanting!

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Fairy poems often explore themes of magic, nature, and the ethereal world, drawing on folklore and mythology. Poets have been inspired by fairies to create verses that range from whimsical and playful to melancholic and mysterious.

A famous classic fairy poem is "The Fairies" by William Allingham: This poem describes a night-time gathering of fairies in a moonlit landscape.

The Fairies by William Allingham

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!

Down along the rocky shore
Some make their home,
They live on crispy pancakes
Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain-lake,
With frogs for their watchdogs,
All night awake.

High on the hill-top
The old King sits;
He is now so old and grey
He’s nigh lost his wits.
With a bridge of white mist
Columbkill he crosses,
On his stately journeys
From Slieveleague to Rosses;
Or going up with music
On cold starry nights,
To sup with the Queen
Of the gay Northern Lights.

They stole little Bridget
For seven years long;
When she came down again
Her friends were all gone.
They took her lightly back,
Between the night and morrow,
They thought that she was fast asleep,
But she was dead with sorrow.
They have kept her ever since
Deep within the lake,
On a bed of flag-leaves,
Watching till she wake.

By the craggy hillside,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn trees
For pleasure, here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!

Fairy Poems And Poetry

If I could be a Fairy now

The Fairy Dance

The Snow

Fairy Poems by Enid Blyton

The Sunset Fairies

As I lay on the top of Guelders Hill
And watched the lazy clouds a sailing by,
I saw the strangest thing I'd ever seen
Away up in the Western Sunny sky.

I saw a host of baby clouds in line
Come floating up from somewhere far away,
And riding on each flimsy bit of mist
Were fairies dressed in pink and silver grey.

They brought their clouds to anchor in the West
(All pink they were like almond trees just out).
Each fairy took a paintbrush and pot.
And started splashing pink and gold about.

They worked for half and hour with brush and paint,
And made a sunset, wonderful to see,
A lake of gold with islands tipped with pink-
And then a fairy dropped some paint on me!

It fell across my hand and made me laugh.
And all the fairies turned their head,
And when they saw me watching down below,
They took their little clouds and off they fled!

Fairy Poetry Books

We have researched a few great books on Fairy Poems for the old and the young, and of course the young-at-heart!

Fairy Poems

A wide-ranging and appealingly fairy-sized treasury of fantastical poems from across the centuries and around the world, in a gorgeously jacketed small hardcover.

This collection brings together a diverse array of literary fairies: here are Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare‘s Titania, and Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” but also Arthur Rimbaud’s “Fairy,” Goethe's "Erlking," Claude McKay’s “Snow Fairy,” Denise Levertov’s “Elves,” Sylvia Plath’s “Lorelei," and Christopher Okigbo's "Watermaid."

You can read more and purchase here.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Fairy Poems

Readers will love this never-before published collection of poems from Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of The Little House on the Prairie.

Day and night, wherever we go, fairies are out dancing, painting, and creating joyous mischief for all who can see them. Laura Ingalls Wilder shares her vision of the fanciful, ethereal, and mischievous world of the "Little People" in this first-ever collection of fairy poems she wrote in 1915. Accompanied by whimsical illustrations, readers young and old will cherish this book for a lifetime.

You can purchase this lovely book on Amazon here.

Read Aloud Fairy Poems

A tiny, delightful, whimsical book about magical little worlds. The intricate, enchanting illustrations and lively poetry encourage a little treasure hunt into a fantastical world.

Fairies fly and swim and make tea-cup towers. They take little rests in the shade of a leaf. Mermaids frolic and swim and refuse to be caught. Gnomes hide just out of view, teasing us with a glimpse now and then, but never come out to play. Hummingbirds zip and flit.

Reviews say this is such a fun and colorful book! The author is also the illustrator and the art work is perfectly matched to the fun text. A fun book for kids, filled with charming poems and whimsical fairy pictures.

Read more reviews and purchase this enchanting book here - this would make a great gift for a fairy-loving child 💖🧚

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