William Allingham

William Allingham (19 March 1824 – November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.

Quotes

 * Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men.
 * Poem: The Fairies.


 * No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone, corpse-gazing, tears, black raiment, graveyard grimness. Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine. Remember all the best of our past moments, and forget the rest; and so to where I wait, come gently on.
 * Poem: No funeral gloom - part of funeral of actress Ellen Terry 1928.


 * Out of the city, far away With spring to-day! Where copses tufted with primrose Give me repose, Wood-sorrel and wild violet Soothe my soul's fret.
 * Poem: A Holiday.


 * Winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep.
 * Ruined Chapel; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
 * Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Autumn's the mellow time.
 * The Winter Pear; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
 * Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day;  Sweet Love is dead.
 * An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.
 * Daffodil; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay! She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
 * Lovely Mary Donnelly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).