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Verses, Fragments, and Notes [by William Allingham]

Allingham, William (1824-1889)

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TO THE FELLOW TRAVELLER

VERSES

THE HERMITAGE

[Childlike, I love that skylark's trills]

TRIFLES

[In tears of blood, if such might be]

TO ---

['Tis true we cannot keep the heights]

[Low men who live by labour of their hands]

ON A BLACKTHORN WALKING-STICK

A REGRET

[Have I cause to be afraid?]

THE SOLITARY

[In evil forget not good]

[I will not be a critic where I love.]

[I never fancied I could lose]

[The moon upon the cornfield shone]

[The woodruff]

[Who that, even in a dream]

[I can be haughty with my brother-kind]

LORD BLANK: A BIOGRAPHY

[I saw a man go by to-day; O when we were at school]

IRISH ANNALS

[The Whiting Society passes its time]

WRECK OF THE “HENRIETTA CHARLOTTE”

Sufferer to Comforter

Epitaph (by the Departed)

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You leaves that were lusty,
Now yellow and rusty,
Now dying and rotten,
Come cover me over,
For ever and ever
Unseen and forgotten.

The sun cannot warm him,
The flow'rs cannot charm him,
Nor thunder alarm him.