O pale green sea,
With long, pale, purple clouds above -
What lies in me like weight of love ?
(Aeolian Harp)
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And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shakeKiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,William Allingham
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
William Allingham
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.
William Allingham
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 Allingham
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.
William Allingham
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