The Stolen Child

It was later published in his first book of poetry The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems as well as Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.

American composer Eric Whitacre has also set this poem in a piece for The King's Singers and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.

The poem has also been set to music by Norwegian composer Marcus Paus, and was included on the Grammy-nominated album Kind (2010) by Ensemble 96; Stephen Eddins wrote that Paus's work is "sumptuously lyrical and magically wild, and [...] beautifully captures the alluring mystery and danger and melancholy" of Yeats.

The poem is also featured in the Torchwood episode "Small Worlds", being spoken by a fairy who steals a young girl.

The refrain is spoken during the opening credits of the 2014 film Song of the Sea, which is based largely on Celtic mythology.