The Fairy Dance
A girl or woman dances with the fairies by moonlight and is never the same.
Two-stanza poem of 12 couplets.
Alix Egerton, poem,
Pamela Colman Smith, ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_05/page/n5/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, vol. 5, p. 6</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV5-egerton-fairy/">"The Fairy Dance" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[September] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
The Gray Coat (A Dream)
A dream of war and guillotines and death by severed head; Napoleon is both a god and a corpse who cannot die.
story/fiction
Christopher St. John
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_08/page/n7/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf No</em>. 8, p. 8</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV8-st-john-gray-coat/">"The Gray Coat (A Dream)" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[December] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
The Harvest Home
The essay describes the traditional ritual of the “English Harvest Home,” which is being enacted in the form of a Masque and Procession, and concluded with a jig.
Essay / Program Notes for Harvest Home Masque
E. Gordon Craig, essay and ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_03/page/n1/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 3, p. 3</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV3-craig-harvest/">"The Harvest Home" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[July] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
[July] 1903
The Lament of the Lyceum Rat
Narrated by the last rat at the Lyceum Theatre, who is abandoned and starving. The story references the end of Sir Henry Irving’s ownership of the Lyceum.
story/fiction
Mary Brown, story,
Pamela Colman Smith, ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_05/page/n9/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 5, p. 10</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV5-brown-lyceum/">"The Lament of the Lyceum Rat" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[September] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
The Rim of the Sea
lyric about the sea
Two stanzas rhyming abab
Pamela Colman Smith, Poem and Ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_06/page/n1/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 6, p. 2</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV6-smith-sea/">"The Rim of the Sea" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[October] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
The Water Sprite
A wise Child addresses a “Nixie, Nixie,” or Water Sprite, despite the scepticism of adults.
Poem in 5 quatrains, rhyming abab
Alix Egerton, poem,
Pamela Colman Smith, ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_04/page/n1/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 4, p. 3</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV4-egerton-sprite/">"The Water Sprite" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[August] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
magazine page
The Wind and Jan A Dreams
Used in:
a poem about the wind by Evelyn Garnaut Smalley
a story about a dream by John Masefield
lyric, fiction
Evelyn Garnaut Smalley
John Masefield
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_02/page/n11/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 2, p.10</a><br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1904_13/page/n15/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 13, p. 7</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV2-masefield-jan/">"Jan A Dreams" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a><br /><a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV13-smalley-wind/">"The Wind" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
No. 2 [June] 1903
No. 13 [May] 1904
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
The Wood of Laragh
The lyric speaker recalls solitude and quiet pleasure of the woods.
9-line poem
Cecil French, poem,
Pamela Colman Smith, ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_08/page/n1/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 8, p. 3</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV8-french-laragh/">"The Wood of Laragh" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[December] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
Time and The Turning Tide
Two brief lyrics separated by textual ornament
poetry
Pamela Colman Smith, "Time" and textual ornament;
Cecil French, "The Turning Tide"
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_05/page/n9/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No. 5, p. 11</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV5-french-tide/">"Time and The Turning Tide" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[September] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page
Two Poems:
Calling voice and echoing response
poetry
Alix Egerton, The Calling Voice,
Pamela Colman Smith, Echo and textual ornament
<a href="https://archive.org/details/green_sheaf_1903_07/page/n1/mode/2up"><em>The Green Sheaf</em>, No.7, p. 3</a>
<a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV7-egerton-calling/">"The Calling Voice" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a><br /><a href="https://1890s.ca/GSV7-smith-echo/">"Echo" at <em>Yellow Nineties 2.0</em></a>
Pamela Colman Smith
[November] 1903
Public Domain
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press.
<a href="https://1890s.ca/green-sheaf-volumes/"><i>Green Sheaf Digital Edition</i></a><span>, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra. </span><i>Yellow Nineties 2.0</i><span>, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022.</span>
English
magazine page