Mythology & Folklore
Fairies
From Last Songs (1918)
Mythology & FolkloreNature
Maiden-poet, come with me
To the heaped up cairn of Maeve,
And there we'll dance a fairy dance
Upon a fairy's grave.
In and out among the trees,
Filling all the night with sound,
The morning, strung upon her star,
Shall chase us round and round.
What are we but fairies too,
Living but in dreams alone,
Or, at the most, but children still,
Innocent and overgrown?
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Codex Note
'Maiden-poet, come with me / To the heaped up cairn of Maeve.' An invitation to a fairy dance upon a fairy's grave.
Cite this poem
MLA
Ledwidge, Francis. “Fairies.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/54/.
Chicago
Ledwidge, Francis. “Fairies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/54/.
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