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A laughing, joyous sprite who smiles from dawn to dark - George Leonard Allen "Portrait" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Who hear the sprites from Elf-land call - Elizabeth Anderson "To EARL and GEORGIA"

'Twould tame the most malicious sprite - Marguerite, Countess of Blessington "The Belle of a Season"

Unhousing all the sprites that dwell - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Meditations on the Last Judgment" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.4, Oct. 1852]

Every chanting sprite that lit the sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Many a mischievous, enfranchised Sprite - Thomas Ingoldsby "The Ghost"

The rain sprites call greetings to me - "It's Raining, It's Pouring" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Plagues inflicted by these angered sprites - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Where drowsy sprites sip clover-sweets - Walter S. Percy "Chatterbox"

While sister sprites wake laughter - Theodore H. Rand "The Crystal Spring"


Which frost-sprites laughing cast - Mrs Newton Crosland "The Tongue of Fire"


That sea-sprites weave in vain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"


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