In the Tate Britain there is a magical painting set deep in the forest, with tiny, supernatural beings frozen in anticipation as the "Fairy Feller" prepares to split a nut with his axe. It's by Richard Dadd, and he wrote a poem to go alongside it.

Follow the faeries, follow the faeries, Let them lead you astray Pull yourself from well-trodden paths, and whistle your time away...

There are two #Eddas; the Poetic (older) Edda, and the Prose (younger) Edda. They are collections of mythological stories revolving...

#Beowulf is an Old English epic #poem that is considered one of the oldest surviving works of English #literature. It tells the story of...

Welsh Maiden by Joel Hayward, a poem about the monstrous witch Jenny Greenteeth.

If-, a poem by Rudyard Kipling (1895) If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can...

Sussex, a poem by Rudyard Kipling (1902) God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot...