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