Read full poem →'Ye Sylphs and Sylphids, to your chief give ear,
Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons hear!
Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assign'd
Dictionary Entry
The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “fairies”
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Read full poem →fairies: Whereas our authors, however aukwardly they treat of ghosts and
Read full poem →Which sounds, from fields beyond my range,
Like fairies' music, thin and strange.
With something like remorse, I grant
Read full poem →It is true that you say the gods are more use to you than fairies,
But for all that I have seen you
Read full poem →They the envious Little People,
They the fairies and the pygmies,
Plotted and conspired against him.
Read full poem →They the envious Little People,
They the fairies and the pygmies,
Plotted and conspired against him.
Read full poem →Witches on sheep-trays gallop by,
And fairies, like a rising spark,
Swarm twittering round them in the dark;
Read full poem →And win perhaps that night a peerless bride,
While legion'd fairies pac'd the coverlet,
And pale enchantment held her sleepy-eyed.
Read full poem →Fall upon the earth,
Am I too old to see the fairies dance?
I cannot find them any more.
Read full poem →thee, and the Priapi in sable raiment, and the Panes sorrow for thy
song, and the Fountain-fairies in the wood made moan, and their tears
turned to rivers of waters. And Echo in the rocks laments that thou art