Rose Fyleman Poems

I STOOD against the window

And looked between the bars,
And there were strings of fairies
...

I think mice

Are rather nice.

There tails are long,
...

A FAIRY went a-marketing

She bought a little fish;
She put it in a crystal bowl
...

THE grouse that lives on the moorland wide

Is filled with a most ridiculous pride ;

He thinks that it all belongs to him
...

You walk in your orchard, you sit in your

bower

Mid plentiful treasure of fruit and of flower ;
But you shall have pleasaunces brighter than
...

YOU'VE stolen all our mushrooms !
When friends come in to tea
In Fairyland it is the rule
To offer them a satin stool ;
...

OF all the birds the fairies love the skylark much

the best ;
They come with little fairy gifts to seek his hidden
...

THOUGH the fairies meet by night

In the moonlit spaces,
Often in the morning light
...

I HEARD a little tiny noise behind the cup-
board door

And something soft and small and quick
flashed right across the floor.
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I SHALL be a lady
As pretty as you please,
And I shall have a garden
With lots of flowers and trees,
...