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William Allingham
March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | A Day-Dream's Reflection | Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay | | | 869 | | A Dream | I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night; | | | 775 | | A Gravestone | Far from the churchyard dig his grave, | | | 759 | | A Memory | Four ducks on a pond, | | | 905 | | A Seed | See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down, | | | 759 | | A Singer | That which he did not feel, he would not sing; | | | 811 | | Abbey Assaroe | Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town, | | 32 | 860 | | Adieu To Belshanny | Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; | | | 753 | | Aeolian Harp | O pale green sea, | | | 765 | | After Sunset | The vast and solemn company of clouds | | | 749 | | Amy Margaret's Five Year Old | Amy Margaret's five years old, | | | 775 | | An Evening | A sunset's mounded cloud; | | | 757 | | Autumnal Sonnet | Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, | | | 752 | | Daffodil | Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn, | | | 833 | | Down On The Shore | Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! | | | 711 | | Four Ducks On A Pond | Four ducks on a pond, | | | 1385 | | Half-Waking | I thought it was the little bed | | | 772 | | In A Spring Grove | Here the white-ray'd anemone is born, | | | 720 | | In Snow | O English mother, in the ruddy glow | | | 782 | | Kate O'Belashanny | Seek up and down, both fair and brown, | | | 709 | | Late Autumn | October - and the skies are cool and gray | | | 779 | | Let Me Sing Of What I Know | A wild west Coast, a little Town, | | | 866 | | Lovely Mary Donnelly | Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best | | | 675 | | Meadowsweet | Through grass, through amber'd cornfields, our slow Stream, | | | 760 | | On A Forenoon Of Spring | I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel | | | 720 | | Robin Redbreast | Good-bye, good-bye to Summer! | | | 714 | | Song. O Spirit Of The Summer-Time! | O spirit of the Summer-time! | | | 761 | | St. Margaret's Eve | Saint Margaret's Eve it did befall, | | | 679 | | The Abbot Of Innisfallen | The Abbot of Innisfallen | | | 733 | | The Boy | The Boy from his bedroom-window | | | 734 | | The Bubble | See the pretty planet! | | | 845 | | The Eviction | In early morning twilight, raw and chill, | | | 720 | | The Fairies | Up the airy mountain, | | | 958 | | The Girl's Lamentation | With grief and mourning I sit to spin; | | | 914 | | The Lepracaun Or Fairy Shoemaker | Little Cowboy, what have you heard, | | | 719 | | The Little Dell | Doleful was the land, | | | 710 | | The Lover And Birds | Within a budding grove, | | | 664 | | The Maids Of Elfin-Mere | When the spinning-room was here | | | 731 | | The Nobleman's Wedding | I once was a guest at a Nobleman's wedding; | | | 968 | | The Ruined Chapel | By the shore, a plot of ground | | | 994 | | The Touchstone | A man there came, whence none could tell, | | | 988 | | The Winding Banks Of Erne | Adieu to Belashanny! | | | 936 | | The Winter Pear | Is always Age severe? | | | 1048 | | These Little Songs | These little Songs, | | | 1053 | | To The Author Of 'Hesperides | Hayrick some do spell thy name, | | | 1103 | | Wayside Flowers | Pluck not the wayside flower, | | | 904 | | Wishing | Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose, | | | 916 | | Writing | A man who keeps a diary, pays | | | 945 |
About:
William Allingham (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.
He was born at Ballyshannon, Donegal, and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent. He obtained a post in the custom-house of his native town and held several similar posts in Ireland and England until 1870, when he had retired from the service, and became sub-editor of Fraser's Magazine, which he edited from 1874 to 1879, in succession to James Froude. He had published a volume of Poems in 1850, followed by Day and Night Songs, a volume containing many charming lyrics, in 1855. Allingham was on terms of close friendship with DG Rossetti, who contributed to the illustration of the Songs. His Letters to Allingham (1854-1870) were edited by Dr Birkbeck Hill in 1897. Lawrence Bloomfield in Ireland, his most ambitious, though not his most successful work, a narrative poem illustrative of Irish social questions, appeared in 1864. He also edited The Ballad Book for the Golden Treasury series in 1864.
In 1874 Allingham married Helen Paterson, known under her married name as a water-colour painter. He died at Hampstead in 1889, and his ashes are interred at St. Anne's in his native Ballyshannon.
Though working on an unostentatious scale, Allingham produced much excellent lyrical and descriptive poetry, and the best of his pieces are thoroughly national in spirit and local colouring. His verse is clear, fresh, and graceful.
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