I'D Love To Be A Fairy's Child Poem by Robert Graves

I'D Love To Be A Fairy's Child

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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.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Babatunde Aremu 31 October 2015

Yes, I love to be also. But all that glitters is not gold. Nice poem, very apt

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Rajnish Manga 30 October 2015

Children like to fantasize in line with the folktales they have heard or read in their childhood. They want to be one of the lot. Thanks.

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Delphinium Bloom 22 February 2014

this is a beautiful poem :)

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