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William Allingham's Poetry, by first line

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  • To The Author Of 'Hesperides
    Hayrick some do spell thy name,
    And thy verse approves the same;
    4 lines
  • A Day-Dream's Reflection
    Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay
    Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam,
    14 lines
  • A Dream
    I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;
    I went to the window to see the sight;
    33 lines, 4 comments
  • A Gravestone
    Far from the churchyard dig his grave,
    On some green mound beside the wave;
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • A Memory
    Four ducks on a pond,
    A grass-bank beyond,
    7 lines
  • A Seed
    See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,
    And through the Winter neglected lay,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • A Singer
    That which he did not feel, he would not sing;
    What most he felt, religion it was to hide
    14 lines
  • Abbey Assaroe
    Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town,
    It has neither door nor window, the walls are broken down;
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • After Sunset
    The vast and solemn company of clouds
    Around the Sun's death, lit, incarnadined,
    14 lines
  • Amy Margaret's Five Year Old
    Amy Margaret's five years old,
    Amy Margaret's hair is gold,
    12 lines
  • An Evening
    A sunset's mounded cloud;
    A diamond evening-star;
    8 lines
  • Autumnal Sonnet
    Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,
    And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,
    14 lines
  • The Boy
    The Boy from his bedroom-window
    Look'd over the little town,
    16 lines
  • The Eviction
    In early morning twilight, raw and chill,
    Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill,
    58 lines
  • The Fairies
    Up the airy mountain,
    Down the rushy glen,
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • Half-waking
    I thought it was the little bed
    I slept in long ago;
    20 lines
  • In Snow
    O English mother, in the ruddy glow
    Hugging your baby closer when outside
    14 lines
  • Writing
    A man who keeps a diary, pays
    Due toll to many tedious days;
    6 lines
  • Meadowsweet
    Through grass, through amber'd cornfields, our slow Stream--
    Fringed with its flags and reeds and rushes tall,
    14 lines
  • Robin Redbreast
    Good-bye, good-bye to Summer!
    For Summer's nearly done;
    36 lines
  • Song
    O Spirit of the Summertime !
    Bring back the roses to the dells ;
    12 lines
  • Let Me Sing Of What I Know
    A wild west Coast, a little Town,
    Where little Folk go up and down,
    8 lines
  • The Winding Banks Of Erne
    Adieu to Belashanny!
    where I was bred and born;
    160 lines
  • The Lepracaun Or Fairy Shoemaker
    Little Cowboy, what have you heard,
    Up on the lonely rath's green mound?
    71 lines
  • The Girl's Lamentation
    With grief and mourning I sit to spin;
    My Love passed by, and he didn't come in;
    72 lines
  • The Nobleman's Wedding
    I once was a guest at a Nobleman's wedding;
    Fair was the Bride, but she scarce had been kind,
    32 lines
  • Kate O'Belashanny
    Seek up and down, both fair and brown,
    We've purty lasses many, O;
    48 lines
  • Four Ducks On A Pond
    Four ducks on a pond,
    A grass-bank beyond,
    7 lines, 2 comments
  • The Maids Of Elfin-Mere
    When the spinning-room was here
    Came Three Damsels, clothed in white,
    40 lines
  • The Lover And Birds
    Within a budding grove,
    In April's ear sang every bird his best,
    49 lines
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