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Mopsa the Fairy
By Jean Ingelow
Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)
[dedication]
I.
CHAPTER I. ABOVE THE CLOUDS.
[‘And can this be my own world?]
III.
CHAPTER III WINDING-UP TIME.
[‘Wake, baillie, wake! the crafts are out]
IV.
CHAPTER IV. BEES AND OTHER FELLOW-CREATURES.
[The dove laid some little sticks]
V.
CHAPTER V. THE PARROT IN HIS SHAWL.
[My good man—he's an old, old man—]
[My fair lady's a dear, dear lady—]
[Yet my fair lady's my own, own lady]
VI.
CHAPTER VI. THE TOWN WITH NOBODY IN IT.
[‘Master,’ quoth the auld hound]
VIII.
CHAPTER VIII. A STORY.
[In the night she told a story]
[Drop, drop from the leaves of lign aloes]
IX.
CHAPTER IX. AFTER THE PARTY.
[When I sit on market-days amid the comers and the goers]
X.
CHAPTER X. MOPSA LEARNS HER LETTERS.
[The marten flew to the finch's nest]
XI.
CHAPTER XI. GOOD MORNING, SISTER.
[Sweet is childhood—childhood's over]
[On the rocks by Aberdeen]
LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LIFT.
XII.
CHAPTER XII. THEY RUN AWAY FROM OLD MOTHER FATE.
[A land that living warmth disowns]
XIII.
CHAPTER XIII. MELON SEEDS.
[Little babe, while burns the west]
XIV.
CHAPTER XIV. REEDS AND RUSHES.
[Turn your back on the light, and you'll follow a shadow.]
XV.
CHAPTER XV. THE QUEEN'S WAND.
[The prince shall to the chase again]
[Though the sun shine brightly]
XVI.
CHAPTER XVI. FAILURE.
[We are much bound to them that do succeed]
[‘He had brought them,’ he said, ‘some meat on a bone]
[One morning, oh! so early, my belovèd, my belovèd]
[Who pipes upon the long green hill]
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Mopsa the Fairy
Dedicated
TO MY DEAR LITTLE COUSIN JANET HOLLWAY
Mopsa the Fairy
