…so she said, “Farewell,” and rose as lightly as a bubble to the surface of the water. The sun had just set as she raised her head above the waves; but the clouds were tinted with crimson and gold, and through the glimmering twilight beamed the evening star in all its beauty.

(From Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.)

“To-day I bake, to-morrow brew,
The next I’ll have the young Queen’s child.
Ha! glad am I that no one knew
That Rumpelstiltskin I am styled.”

(From Rumpelstiltskin)

Vasilissa the Beautiful

The tender-hearted children seized hold of the little man, and struggled so long with the bird that at last he let go his prey.

When the dwarf had recovered from the first shock he screamed in his screeching voice: “Couldn’t you have treated me more carefully? You have torn my thin little coat all to shreds, useless, awkward hussies that you are!”

Schneewhittchen, “Snow White,” from a 1919 German anthology of fairy tales entitled Märchenbuch.

[Through the Rainbow] is about a little girl named Edith who is visited by the Raindrop Fairy. They travel through the different colors of the rainbow, finding different tiny kingdoms and towns in each one. (From here.)

“Light of spirit, by my charms,
Light of body, every part,
Never weary human arms —
Only crush thy parents’ heart!”

(From The Light Princess)