Fairies by
Shirley Marie Dees |
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| This artwork is about 14" x 18". The main image is taken
from a black and white print by Arthur Rackham, c. 1900. The 1802
poem by Anne Bannerman reads as follows: "Turn from the path, in search of gay delight; Lead thy vain footsteps back to ages past! Frail are the blighted flowers, and thinly cast; O'er the dim regions of monastic night. Yet in their cavern'd, dark recesses dwells; The long-lost Spirit of forgotten times; Whose voice prophetic reach'd to distant climes; And ruled the nations from his witched cells. That voice is hush'd!... But still in Fancy's ear; Its first unmeasur'd melodies resound! Blending with terrors wild, and legends drear; The charmed minstrelsy of mystic sound; That rous'd embodied, to the eye of Fear; The' unearthly habitants of faery ground." |
Price: Sold |
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