| 462 pages
...CONSERVATORY. THE FAIBIK8. Child. Mamma, tell me something about the Fairies. Havana. Listen then : — " Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't...Trooping all together, Green jacket, red cap, And grey cock's feather ! Down along the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancake*... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1862 - 914 pages
...the ring of the true metal. As a good specimen we give a single stanza from a " Child's Song about the Fairies." " Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy...together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather !* SCHOOL ROORS. TAYLOR'S METHOD OF CLASSICAL STUDY.f—So great is the tendency, and so almost universal,... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...thornies set In his bed at night. " Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men, — Wee folk, good folk. Trooping...together ; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's leather ! " THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. LORELEY; A RHINE LEGEND. " FROM yon rock's topmost height, Where... | |
| William Allingham - 1850 - 320 pages
...But long, behind our backs, We heard the echoes of his swinging axe." THE FAIRIES. A NUBSEBY SONG. UP the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't...Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And grey-cock's feather! Down along the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancakes... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...pleasure here and there. Is any man so daring To dig up one in spite, He shall find the thornies set Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't...Trooping all together ; Green jacket, red cap, And grey-cock's feather ! THE GEBMAN TEACHEB. By Lady DUFFEBIN : extracted from the Drawing Boom Scrap... | |
| William Allingham - 1854 - 356 pages
...there. Is any man so daring To 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...Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And grey- cock's feather! THE RUINED CHAPEL. BY the shore, a plot of ground Clips a ruin'd chapel round,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 pages
...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 of human nature that Lord Bacon,... | |
| 1857 - 678 pages
...quote : "THE FAIRIES. " A NURSEHT SO.40. " Up the airy mountain, l)own the rushy glen, We daren't jro n hunting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk,...yellow tide-foam ; Some in the reeds Of the black mountain lake, With frogs for their watch-dogs. All night awake. 1856/ New Poetry. " High on the hill-top... | |
| 1857 - 694 pages
...SONG. " Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go n hunting For four of little men; Wre folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket,...pancakes Of yellow tide-foam; Some in the reeds Of the blnck mountain lake, With frogs for their watch-dogs, All night awako. " High on the hill-top The old... | |
| 1857 - 686 pages
...thorniue set In his bed at night. " Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-huuting For fear of little men ; Wee folk, good folk. Trooping...; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather." "LOVELY MARY DONNELLY. " Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, it's you I love the beet ! If fitly girls were round... | |
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