William Allingham 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. Wikipedia
“Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.”
An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Poem: No funeral gloom - part of funeral of actress Ellen Terry 1928.
“Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men.”
Poem: The Fairies http://www.bartleby.com/101/769.html.
“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Winds and waters keep
A hush more dead than any sleep.”
Ruined Chapel; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring
Lies open, writ in blossoms.”
Daffodil; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Oh, bring again my heart's content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!”
Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lovely Mary Donnelly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Winter Pear; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
