[FAIRIES] A Handwritten and Drawn Poem

Single sheet of Reynolds super fine art card (19 x 22.5cm); with an original, and highly intricate pen and ink illustration and poem to the recto; three verses enclosed within floral device borders, and five fairies; two on lily pads, another watching on, and the King and Queen, seemingly, atop the highest leaf; a little browned and creased to edges, with a couple of small dark marks; the paper mark embossed to the upper right-hand corner; a very good example of an ephemeral item. 

A charming manuscript poem and accompanying drawing on the subject of fairies. The verses read: 

The moonbeams rested on tree and flow’r

And tipt yon turret grey: 

It beamed on the leaves of a Fairy Bow’r

And stream’d o’er a Meadow gay. 

The Lake lay calm and silent then: 

The Brook, as it stole along, 

Seem’d half afraid, in the Forest glen, 

Of its gentle murmuring song. 

‘Twas a time when Fairies love to keep

Their revels gay, while Mortals sleep, 

O’er the dewy grass they flit along

And sweetly breathe their cheerful song: 

Then hovering round each flower that grows,

They seek awhile a short repose. 

Seemingly unpublished.  

SKU: 1800278