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
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Poetry examples for “fays”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Age man's eye has looked upon,
Death to fauns and death to fays,
Still the dog-wood dares to raise--
Read full poem →And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Read full poem →Thou must hold water in a witch's sieve, 120
And be liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays,
To venture so: it fills me with amaze
Read full poem →Each fettered ghost slips to his several grave,
And the yellow-skirted fays 235
Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze.