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Fairies: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Failed the bright promise of your early day?— BISHOP HEBER — Palestine. L. 113.
In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As-fail!— BULWER-LYTTON — Richelieu. Act II. Sc. 2.
If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness And earth's base built on stubble.— MILTON — Comus. L. 597.
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!— WILLIAM ALLINGHAM — The Fairies.
Bright Eyes, Light Eyes! Daughter of a Fay! I had not been a married wife a twelvemonth and a day, I had not nursed my little one a month upon my knee, When down among the blue bell banks rose elfins three times three: They griped me by the raven hair, I could not cry for fear, They put a hempen rope around my waist and dragged me here; They made me sit and give thee suck as mortal mothers can, Bright Eyes, Light Eyes! strange and weak and wan!— ROBERT BUCHANAN — The Fairy Foster
Mother. Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.— MARY HOWITT — The Fairies of the Caldon Low. St. 5.
*** Or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 781.
S. The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.— POPE — January and May. L. 624.
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night.— Shakespeare — Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 41.
In silence sad, Trip we after night's shade: We the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wand'ring moon.— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act IV. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 100.
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman.— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 54.
Set your heart at rest: The fairyland buys not the child of me.— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 121.
The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes.— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 171.
They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die: I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye.— Shakespeare — Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 51.
This is the fairy-land; O spite of spites! We talk with goblins, owls and sprites.— Shakespeare — Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 191.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly.— Shakespeare — Tempest. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 88. Song.
Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew And her conception of the joyous prime. i。— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto VI. St. 3.
But light as any wind that blows So fleetly did she stir, The flower, she touch'd on, dipt and rose, And turned to look at her.— TENNYSON — The Talking Oak. St. 33.