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The Fairies

William Allingham

First published 1888
Type Poem

This poem begins with: "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men"

This poem was published in Poems (1850) by William Allingham. Published in Poems, London, Longmans Green and Company, 1901, according to "Original Sources (Irish Fairy and Folk Tales)".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1888 Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Walter Scott Anthology 3
1909 Cover The Magic Casement: An Anthology of Fairy Poetry Chapman & Hall Anthology 339
1910 English Poetry: Volume III: From Tennyson to Whitman P. F. Collier & Son Anthology 1116
1920 Cover The Book of Fairy Poetry Longmans, Green and Co. Anthology 22
1947 Cover Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Arkham House Anthology 134
1947 Cover Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Arkham House Anthology 134
1951 Cover The Big Golden Book of Elves and Fairies Golden Press Anthology 40
1969 Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre Books for Libraries Press Anthology 134
1973 Cover A Golden Land Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) Anthology 361
1980 Cover Ghosts and Shadows Lutterworth Press Anthology 69
1982 Cover Why Am I Grown So Cold?: Poems of the Unknowable Margaret K. McElderry / Atheneum Anthology 108
1983 Cover Great Fairy Tales of Ireland Frederick Muller Ltd Anthology 15
July 1985 Cover The Little World of Elves & Fairies: An Anthology of Verse with Illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Angus & Robertson Anthology 32
September 1985 Cover The Little World of Elves & Fairies: An Anthology of Verse with Illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Angus & Robertson Anthology |32
August 1986 Cover Ghosts and Shadows Fontana Young Lions Anthology 69
September 1988 The Victorian Fairy Tale Book Pantheon Books Anthology 129
1992 Cover Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Puffin Anthology 3
October 1999 Cover The Fairies' Ring Dutton Children's Books Anthology 30
October 2000 Cover The Book of Fairies HarperCollins Anthology 111
January 2003 Cover The Victorian Fairy Tale Book Pantheon Books Anthology 129
September 2006 Cover Fairy Poems Macmillan Children's Books Anthology 58
November 2006 Cover The Book of Fairies HarperTrophy Anthology 111
March 2009 Cover Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Blackstaff Press Anthology |3
June 2015 Faerie Magazine, Summer 2015 Faerie Magazine MAGAZINE 70
April 2017 Cover Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm Weiser Books Anthology 92
April 2017 Cover Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild and Wicked Enchanted Realm Weiser Books Anthology |92
November 2020 Cover The Complete Harvard Classics Moon Classics Omnibus |42.1116