Famous Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes
"Flood-Tide" (1860).
Edmund Clarence Stedman Quotes
"Elfin Song" (1850).
Context: What if there be a fated day
When the Faery Isle shall pass away,
And its beautiful groves and fountains seem
The myths of a long, delicious dream!
A century's joys shall first repay
Our hearts, for the evil of that day;
And the Elfin-King has sworn to wed
A daughter of Earth, whose child shall be,
By cross and water hallowe'd,
From the fairies' doom forever free.
What if there be a fated day!
It is far away! it is far away!
Maiden, fair Maiden, I, who sing
Of this summer isle am the island King.
"The Feast of the Harvest" in The Blameless Prince : And Other Poems (1869).
"Flood-Tide" (1860).