William Allingham quotes
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“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”
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“Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1855). “The music master, a love story, and two series of Day and night songs”, p.177
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“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”
-- William AllinghamSource : 'A Memory'
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“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1854). “Day and Night Songs”
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“History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?”
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“Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.118
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“Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”
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“I believe in Success, And in Comfort no less I believe all the rest is but patter.”
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“O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait. Bring back the singing; and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;- Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summertime!”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.49
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“Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.”
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“I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press
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“One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1850). “Poems”, p.109
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“Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!”
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“Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.”
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“Autumn's the mellow time.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1883). “Evil May-day, &c”
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“Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.”
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“Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!”
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“If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.117
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“I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.”
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“Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”
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“Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.”
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“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
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“Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1884). “Blackberries picked off many bushes, by D. Pollex and others, put in a basket [verse, really written] by W. Allingham”
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“Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?”
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“The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.”
-- William AllinghamSource : William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”, p.169
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