“A Fairy Song” by William Shakespeare meaning: This lyrical poem from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” captures the enchanting and whimsical nature of fairies. Through vivid imagery and rhythmic cadence, the poem highlights the fairies’ ethereal world and their role in nurturing and protecting the natural environment, blending magic with the beauty of the earthly realm.
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon’s sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.