Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! The Living Age - Page 6351909Full view - About this book
| 1909 - 844 pages
...any tendency to moralizing or allegory is not wanted in that otherworld atmosphere. There is a spice of irreverence about the idea of making the fairy...white owl's feather. I think most of us would give up' many greater poems rather than these^ haunting echoes of old legend and rnmantle dreams which sing... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...[f any man so daring As dig one up in spite, He shall find the thornies set In his bed at night. " Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't...fear of little men, — Wee folk, good folk. Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's leather ! " THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. LORELEY;... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...Bay. It is by WILLIAM ALLINOHAM. UP the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping altogether ; Green jacket, red cap, BEAUTIFUL POETBY. Down alone the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancakes Of... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 pages
...displeasure from sin." CHARMS AND FAIRY FAITH. "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We darn•t go a-hunting For fear of little men. "Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, Gray cock's feather." — Allingham. IT was from a profound knowledge... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...there. Is any man so daring As dig one up in spite, He shall find the thornies set In his bed at night. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't...fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather ! W. AllingJiam LXXXII THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1862 - 588 pages
...the songs : — THE FAIRIES: A CHILD'S SONG. Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen, We dare not go a-hunting, for fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather. Down along the rocky shore some make... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 390 pages
...up in spite. He shall find the thornies set Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We dare n't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And -white owl's feather ! W. Allingham LXXXII THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1865 - 562 pages
...there. Is any man so daring As dig one up in spite, He shall find the thornies set In his bed at night. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't...fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather! R WISHING. A CHILD'S SONG. ING-TING!... | |
| 1865 - 276 pages
...For thee, perchance, and thy Bard of sorrows. THE FAIEIES.i WILLIAM AIAINGHAM. A Song for Children. UP the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; 1 The whole of this beautifhl song can be seen in Mr. AUingham's ' Night and Day Songs ;" we have... | |
| 1871 - 378 pages
...hast brought him a pardon from good King John.' LXXXI THE FAIRIES Up the airy mountain, Old Ballad Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather ! Down along the rocky shore Some make... | |
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