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"Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place."
--Titania, Fairy Queen, in
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
7th: Faerie of Spring
Faerie of Spring
Over hill, over dale,
Over park, over pale,
Through bush, through brier,
Through flood, through fire:
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots You see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every every cowslip's ear.
--William Shakespeare
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
15th: Faerie of Autumn
Faerie of Autumn
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10th: Faerie of Summer
Faerie of Summer
21st: Faerie of Winter
Faerie of Winter
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun, thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
--excerpt from "Frost at Midnight"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Flower fairies--have you found them,
When the summer's dusk is falling,
With the glow-worms watching round them;
Have you heard them softly calling?
--by Philip Bourke Marston
from "Flower Fairies"
27th: Jonquil Flower Faerie
Jonquil Faerie
35th: Rose Faerie
Rose Faerie
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There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!
It's not so very, very far away;
You pass the gardener's shed and you just keep straight ahead
I do so hope they've really come to stay.
There's a little wood, with moss in it and beetles,
And a little stream that quietly runs through;
You wouldn't think they'd dare to come merrymaking there
Well, they do.
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!
They often have a dance on summer nights;
The butterflies and bees make a lovely little breeze,
And the rabbits stand about and hold the lights.
Did you know that they could sit upon the moonbeams
And pick a little star to make a fan,
And dance away up there in the middle of the air?
Well, they can.
--Rose Flyman
from "Fairies"
32nd: Peony Flower Faerie
Peony Faerie
Sunflower Faerie
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