Today's poem:

The Fairies
- by William Allingham

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/792935032099667968/the-fairies?source=share

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POETRY
I just love short poems that contain a whole world within them. Can’t get enough. I came across this one today while reading The Best of William Allingham. #poetry #WilliamAllingham #FourDucksOnAPond

FOUR DUCKS ON A POND

Four ducks on a pond,
A grass-bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing;
What a little thing
To remember for years—
To remember with tears!

Good evening!

The poem for today is The Fairies by William Allingham.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Also known as Lewis Carroll) wanted to give a book to one of his child friends. He wrote on 28 February 1891 to, I think it was the mother, to ask which book he should give. One of his suggestions was "Fairies (poetry by W. Allingham, illustrated, mostly in colour, by my friend Miss E. G. Thomson) - the pictures are lovely (if you don't mind the fairies being entirely naked!) and I've given many copies of it to my child-friends."

https://poetandpoem.com/William-Allingham/Fairies-The

If you want to see the original with illustrations, you can see it here via the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/fairieschildsson00alli/mode/2up

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