Amy Margaret’s five years old,Amy Margaret’s hair is gold,Dearer twenty-thousand-foldThan gold, is Amy Margaret.“Amy”...
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. |
The vast and solemn company of cloudsAround the Sun’s death, lit, incarnadined,Cool into ashy...
O pale green sea,With long, pale, purple clouds above –What lies in me like...
Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born;Go where I may, I’ll think...
Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town,It has neither door nor window, the...
That which he did not feel, he would not sing;What most he felt, religion...
See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,And through the Winter neglected lay,Uncoils two...
Four ducks on a pond,A grass-bank beyond,A blue sky of spring,White clouds on the...
Far from the churchyard dig his grave,On some green mound beside the wave;To westward,...
I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;I went to the window to...