William Allingham
Who is William Allingham
William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator.
Biography
William Allingham was born on 19 March 1824 in Ballyshannon, a small town in the south of County Donegal in Ulster in the north of Ireland, which is now in the Republic of Ireland. He was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent. His younger brothers and sisters were Catherine (born 1826), John (born 1827), Jane (born 18...
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William Allingham Poems
- Song. O Spirit Of The Summer-time!
O spirit of the Summer-time!
Bring back the roses to the dells;
The swallow from her distant clime,
The honey-bee from drowsy cells.
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- A Memory
Four ducks on a pond,
A grass-bank beyond,
A blue sky of spring,
White clouds on the wing;
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- A Day-dream's Reflection
Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay
Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam,
I saw an Echo-Spirit in his bay
Most idly floating in the noontide beam.
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- Daffodil
Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn,
Whose blithe reveille blows from hill to hill
And every valley rings--O Daffodil!
What promise for the season newly born?
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- The Touchstone
A man there came, whence none could tell,
Bearing a Touchstone in his hand;
And tested all things in the land
By its unerring spell.
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- Daithitoms: today's find: a copy of the book of ballads by william allingham inscribed to thoning owesen, the irish-born norwegian merchant and philanthropist. they were first cousins. owesen is buried in the grounds of trondheim cathedral.
- Engkevbarbs: if any foes of mine are there, i pardon every one i hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
william allingham
- Bufocalvin: happy bookish birthdays, 19 march, to: william allingham (the fairies), david saperstein (cocoon), irving wallace (the word), tobias george smollet (the adventures of roderick random)...
- Teomoreno: “round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!”
― william allingham
- Nathanfrancis__: o pale green sea,
with long, pale, purple clouds above -
what lies in me like weight of love ?
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