I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child

Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)



Children born of fairy stock
Never need for shirt or frock,
Never want for food or fire,
Always get their hearts desire:
Jingle pockets full of gold,
Marry when they're seven years old.
Every fairy child may keep
Two ponies and ten sheep;
All have houses, each his own,
Built of brick or granite stone;
They live on cherries, they run wild--
I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 370
Words 71
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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