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. Down along the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancakes Of yellow tide-foam; Some in the reeds OfContinue reading “The Fairies (Poem by William Allingham)”
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The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (1836) AR out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surfaceContinue reading “The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen”
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