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Poem by Thomas Hood


To Fancy


Most delicate Ariel! submissive thing,
Won by the mind's high magic to its hest—
Invisible embassy, or secret guest,—
Weighing the light air on a lighter wing;—
Whether into the midnight moon, to bring
Illuminate visions to the eye of rest,—
Or rich romances from the florid West,—
Or to the sea, for mystic whispering,—
Still by thy charm'd allegiance to the will,
The fruitful wishes prosper in the brain,
As by the fingering of fairy skill,—
Moonlight, and waters, and soft music's strain,
Odors, and blooms, and my Miranda's smile,
Making this dull world an enchanted isle. 



Thomas Hood


Thomas Hood's other poems:
  1. The Departure of Summer
  2. The Two Peacocks of Bedfont
  3. To My Daughter on Her Birthday
  4. Song (The stars are with the voyager)
  5. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Academy


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