“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).
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Famous William Allingham Quotes
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).
William Allingham Quotes
“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).
