Through grass, through amber’d cornfields, our slow Stream–Fringed with its flags and reeds and...
William Allingham
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William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor who lived from 1824 to 1889. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem “The Faeries” was much anthologised. He is also known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. |
Doleful was the land,Dull on, every side,Neither soft n’or grand,Barren, bleak, and wide;Nothing look’d...
Little Cowboy, what have you heard,Up on the lonely rath’s green mound?Only the plaintive...
October – and the skies are cool and grayO’er stubbles emptied of their latest...
O English mother, in the ruddy glowHugging your baby closer when outsideYou see the...
Here the white-ray’d anemone is born,Wood-sorrel, and the varnish’d buttercup;And primrose in its purfled...
I thought it was the little bedI slept in long ago;A straight white curtain...
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!Where the salt smell cheers the land;Where...
Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods,And day by day the dead leaves...
A sunset’s mounded cloud;A diamond evening-star;Sad blue hills afar;Love in his shroud. Scarcely a...