The Culprit Fay and Other Poems

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Author: Joseph Rodman Drake

XXXI.

But oh! how fair the shape that lay
Beneath a rainbow bending bright,
She seemed to the entranced Fay
The loveliest of the forms of light;
Her mantle was the purple rolled
At twilight in the west afar;
’Twas tied with threads of dawning gold,
And buttoned with a sparkling star.
Her face was like the lily roon
That veils the vestal planet’s hue;
Her eyes, two beamlets from the moon,
Set floating in the welkin blue.
Her hair is like the sunny beam,
And the diamond gems which round it gleam
Are the pure drops of dewy even
That ne’er have left their native heaven.

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Chicago: Joseph Rodman Drake, "XXXI.," The Culprit Fay and Other Poems in The Culprit Fay and Other Poems (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed April 18, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DL3RJSTBJSKJZDA.

MLA: Drake, Joseph Rodman. "XXXI." The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, in The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 18 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DL3RJSTBJSKJZDA.

Harvard: Drake, JR, 'XXXI.' in The Culprit Fay and Other Poems. cited in 1850, The Culprit Fay and Other Poems, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=DL3RJSTBJSKJZDA.