Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Rose Fyleman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Rose Fyleman.
Last updated on November 27, 2024.
Rose Fyleman

Rose Amy Fyleman was an English writer and poet, noted for her works on the fairy folk, for children. Her poem "There are fairies at the bottom of our garden" was set to music by English composer Liza Lehmann. Her Christmas carol "Lift your hidden faces", set to a French carol tune, was included in the Anglican hymnal Songs of Praise (1931) as well as in the Hutterian Brotherhood's Songs of Light (1977).

English - Writer | 1877 - 1957
There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.
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.
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
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.
Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?
I think mice Are rather nice. Their tails are long, Their faces small, They haven't any Chins at all.
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.
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