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William Allingham
10 quotes
“Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine.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.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Autumn's the mellow time.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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!”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lovely Mary Donnelly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).