William AllinghamUp the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men.
About This Quote
This is a nursery rhyme that was written about the fairies. These fairies, known as “little men,” are said to be small but powerful. They are also thought to be mischievous and troublesome. This particular version of this nursery rhyme does not explain why people “aren’t allowed” to go hunting for fear of these little men.
Source: The Fairies: A Poem
Some Similar Quotes
- Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.
- The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness
- Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
More Quotes By William Allingham
- In youth audacity is wise
- By the craggy hill-side, Through the mosses bare, They have planted thorn-trees For pleasure here and there. If any man so daring As dig them up in spite, He shall find their sharpest thorns In his bed at night.
- Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men.
- Is idleness indeed so black a crime? What are the Busy doing, half their time?
- Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.