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•  The Magic Casement: An Anthology of Fairy Poetry • interior artwork by Stephen Reid
• xiii • Introduction (The Magic Casement: An Anthology of Fairy Poetry) • essay by Alfred Noyes
• 3 • I Know a Bank • poem by William Shakespeare
• 4 • The Urchins' Dance • poem by John Lyly
• 5 • Where the Bee Sucks • poem by William Shakespeare
• 6 • Nurslings of Immortality • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 7 • Nimphidia • poem by Michael Drayton
• 31 • Morgana • poem by George Darley
• 33 • Puck's Song • (1905) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 35 • Modern Elfland • (1900) • poem by G. K. Chesterton
• 37 • A Fairy Tale • (1826) • poem by Thomas Hood
• 41 • A Fairy Muster • poem by George Darley
• 53 • The Elf-King's Victory • poem by R. C. Lehmann
• 56 • The Fairy Wedding • poem by Michael Drayton (variant of The Eighth Nimphall 1630)
• 63 • A Fairy Funeral • poem by Alfred Noyes
• 66 • The Fairy Camp • poem by George Darley
• 67 • A Fairy Family • poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell [as by Sydney Dobell]
• 70 • Shakespeare's Final Return to Avon • poem by Theodore Watts-Dunton
• 71 • On a Mid-Summer Night • poem by William Shakespeare
• 91 • The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies • (1827) • poem by Thomas Hood
• 135 • Sherwood • poem by Alfred Noyes
• 138 • Robin Goodfellow • poem by Anonymous
• 142 • The Fairy's Warning • poem by George Darley
• 146 • The Elf-King's Hunting • poem by R. C. Lehmann
• 149 • Queen Mab • poem by William Shakespeare
• 151 • A Holyday Night • poem by John Milton
• 152 • Falstaff and the Fairies • poem by William Shakespeare
• 155 • Fairy Revels • (1591) • poem by John Lyly
• 156 • The Haunted Chamber • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 171 • The Three Witches • poem by William Shakespeare
• 187 • The Banshee • (1888) • poem by John Todhunter
• 190 • The Witches' Dance of Death • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 196 • A Charm-Song • poem by Thomas Middleton [as by T. Middleton]
• 197 • The Witches' Sabbath • poem by Ben Jonson
• 199 • On Tweed River • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 200 • To The Sub-Prior • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 202 • Hecate and the Witches • poem by Thomas Middleton
• 204 • Tam O'Shanter • (1791) • poem by Robert Burns
• 212 • Twist Ye, Twine Ye • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 215 • Under the Evening Star • poem by John Milton
• 216 • Corals • poem by Robert Browning [as by Browning]
• 217 • A Fairy Revel • poem by Alfred Tennyson
• 219 • Ariel's Songs • poem by William Shakespeare
• 221 • A Fairy Dirge • poem by George Darley
• 222 • The Moon Child • poem by Fiona MacLeod
• 223 • The Sea-Fairies • (1830) • poem by Alfred Tennyson
• 225 • The Forsaken Merman • (1849) • poem by Matthew Arnold
• 230 • Song of the Sirens • poem by William Browne
• 231 • Flower-Fairies • poem by William Wordsworth
• 233 • The Waving Ferns • poem by Alfred Noyes
• 236 • An Elfin Legend • poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes [as by T. L. Beddoes]
• 237 • Flower-Fairies • (1891) • poem by Philip Bourke Marston
• 239 • Before and After Flowering • (1883) • poem by Philip Bourke Marston
• 243 • The Rose and the Wind • (1871) • poem by Philip Bourke Marston
• 246 • The Broken-Hearted Bee • poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes [as by T. L. Beddoes]
• 247 • The Cowslips • poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell [as by Sydney Dobell]
• 248 • The Green Lady • poem by Fiona MacLeod
• 249 • The Two Swans - A Fairy Tale • poem by Thomas Hood
• 260 • Daffadill • poem by Michael Drayton
• 262 • Winter in Northumberland • poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• 272 • The Fairy Prince • poem by Stephen Phillips
• 272 • The Nightingale in Fairyland • poem by John Keats
• 272 • The Fairy Princess • poem by Stephen Phillips
• 272 • The Queen Awaits Her Prince • poem by William Watson (I)
• 273 • A Magic Casement • poem by Sydney Thompson Dobell [as by Sydney Dobell]
• 275 • To Pierrot in Love • poem by Theodore Watts-Dunton
• 278 • A Tree Song • (1906) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 280 • Thomas the Rhymer • poem by Sir Walter Scott
• 296 • La Belle Dame Sans Merci • (1820) • poem by John Keats
• 298 • Christabel • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge [as by Coleridge]
• 311 • Rapunzel • (1858) • poem by William Morris
• 326 • The Lady of Shalott • (1842) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 328 • The Dead Princess • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 329 • The Day-Dream • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]
• 339 • The Fairies • (1850) • poem by William Allingham
• 341 • The Fairy Thorn: An Ulster Ballad • (1888) • poem by Samuel Ferguson [as by Sir Samuel Ferguson]
• 344 • The Hills of Ruel • (1897) • poem by Fiona MacLeod
• 346 • Goblin Market • (1862) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 365 • The Stolen Child • (1886) • poem by W. B. Yeats
• 369 • By the Babe Unborn • (1900) • poem by G. K. Chesterton
• 370 • Back Again • poem by R. C. Lehmann
• 372 • Eckart the Trusty • poem by Sir Theodore Martin
• 374 • The Bugles of Dreamland • poem by Fiona MacLeod
• 375 • Song (For Music) • (1827) • poem by Thomas Hood
• 376 • The Dream-Fair • poem by Alfred Noyes
• 385 • The Prince of Fairies • poem by Anonymous
• 389 • The Horns of Elfland • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]
• 390 • Epilogue • poem by William Shakespeare