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William Allingham's Poetry, by title

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  • 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
  • Adieu To Belshanny
    Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born;
    Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as night and morn.
    88 lines
  • Aeolian Harp
    O pale green sea,
    With long, pale, purple clouds above -
    19 lines
  • 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
  • Daffodil
        Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn,
          Whose blithe reveille blows from hill to hill
    14 lines
  • Down On The Shore
    Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!
    Where the salt smell cheers the land;
    30 lines
  • Four Ducks On A Pond
    Four ducks on a pond,
    A grass-bank beyond,
    7 lines, 2 comments
  • Half-waking
    I thought it was the little bed
    I slept in long ago;
    20 lines
  • In A Spring Grove
    Here the white-ray'd anemone is born,
    Wood-sorrel, and the varnish'd buttercup;
    13 lines
  • In Snow
    O English mother, in the ruddy glow
    Hugging your baby closer when outside
    14 lines
  • Kate O'Belashanny
    Seek up and down, both fair and brown,
    We've purty lasses many, O;
    48 lines
  • Late Autumn
    October - and the skies are cool and gray
    O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf,
    15 lines
  • Let Me Sing Of What I Know
    A wild west Coast, a little Town,
    Where little Folk go up and down,
    8 lines
  • Lovely Mary Donnelly
    Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best
    If fifty girls were round you, I’d hardly see the rest;
    36 lines
  • Meadowsweet
    Through grass, through amber'd cornfields, our slow Stream--
    Fringed with its flags and reeds and rushes tall,
    14 lines
  • On A Forenoon Of Spring
    I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel
    The full deliciousness of this bright day,
    14 lines
  • Places And Men
    In Sussex here, by shingle and by sand,
    Flat fields and farmsteads in their wind-blown trees,
    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
  • Song. O spirit Of The Summer-time!
      O spirit of the Summer-time!
          Bring back the roses to the dells;
    14 lines
  • St. Margaret's Eve
        Saint Margaret's Eve it did befall,
          The waves roll so gayly O,
    53 lines
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