air-sprites

Updated: May 7, 2025

Elves and gnomes and air-sprites and genii were no strangers to us, for my sister Emilie she who heard me say my hymns, and taught me to write was mistress of an almost limitless fund of imaginative lore. She was a very Scheherezade of story-tellers, so her younger sisters thought, who listened to her while twilight grew into moonlight, evening after evening, with fascinated wakefulness.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)