Rose Fyleman Quotes

• And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

  Rose Fyleman

  Sleep, Angel, Gold

  Rose Fyleman, “The Fairies Have Never A Penny To Spend”

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• Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?

  Rose Fyleman

  Rain, Wings, Rivers

  Rose Fyleman, “Have You Watched The Fairies?”

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• Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.

  Rose Fyleman

  Eye, Wings, Shining

  Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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• I think mice
  Are rather nice.
  
  Their tails are long,
  Their faces small,
  They haven't any
  Chins at all.

  Rose Fyleman

  Nice, Thinking, Long

  Rose Fyleman, Katja Bandlow, Neil Philip (2004). “Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.

  Rose Fyleman

  Song, Angel, Long

  Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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• There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

  Rose Fyleman

  Garden, Earth, Fairy

  Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies"

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