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Flower Pieces and other poems

By William Allingham: With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
  
[dedication]

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FLOWER PIECES.
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FLOWERS AND MONTHS.
 I. 
I. DAISY.
 II. 
II. SNOWDROP.
 III. 
III. DAFFODIL.
 IV. 
IV. PRIMROSE.
 V. 
V. HAWTHORN.
 VI. 
VI. WILD ROSE.
 VII. 
VII. HONEYSUCKLE.
 VIII. 
VIII. MEADOWSWEET.
 IX. 
IX. HEATHER.
 X. 
X. IVY.
 XI. 
XI. CHRYSANTHEMUM.
 XII. 
XII. GORSE.
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FLOWERS AND POETS.
  
[Long years ago these Flowers were cull'd]
  
PRELUDE.
  
WALLFLOWER.
  
HONEYSUCKLE.
  
ROSES.
  
AGAVE.
  
HYACINTH.
  
EGYPTIAN LOTOS.
  
SWEETBRIAR.
  
BLUEBELL OF SCOTLAND.
  
JASMIN.
  
TIGER-LILY.
  
GARLANDS.
  
POSTSCRIPT.
  
TO EÄRINÉ.
  
WAYSIDE FLOWERS.
  
THE CHOICE.
  
IN A GARDEN.
  
AT A WINDOW.
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DAY AND NIGHT SONGS.
  
[These little Songs]
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SPRING.
  
THE LOVER AND BIRDS.
  
A HOLIDAY.
  
IN A SPRING GROVE.
  
THE LITTLE DELL.
  
A SEED.
  
A VERNAL VOLUNTARY.
  
BY THE MORNING SEA.
  
[Four ducks on a pond]
  
WINDLASS SONG.
  
THE FIELDS IN MAY.
  
SPRING IS COME.
  
A RAINBOW.
  
ACROSS THE SEA.
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SUMMER.
  
THE MOWERS.
  
ON THE SUNNY SHORE.
  
THE WAYSIDE WELL.
  
HALF-DREAMING.
  
EVEY.
  
AN EVENING.
  
THE QUEEN OF THE FOREST.
  
IN A BROKEN TOWER.
  
AFTER SUNSET.
  
IN THE DUSK.
  
ÆOLIAN HARP.
  
ON THE TWILIGHT POND.
  
UNKNOWN BELOV'D ONE.
  
SERENADE.
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AUTUMN.
  
AUTUMNAL SONNET.
  
ÆOLIAN HARP.
  
ÆOLIAN HARP.
  
AWAKING.
  
AN AUTUMN EVENING.
  
ROBIN REDBREAST.
  
THE SHOOTING STAR.
  
THE VALLEY STREAM.
  
SOLUS.
  
ÆOLIAN HARP.
  
LATE AUTUMN.
  
TWO MOODS.
  
TWILIGHT VOICES.
  
A GRAVESTONE.
  
HYMN.
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WINTER.
  
[Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure]
  
FOOTSTEPS.
  
ÆOLIAN HARP.
  
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
  
NIGHTWIND.
  
ANGELA.
  
[On the Longest Day]
  
THE WINTER PEAR.
  
HALF-WAKING.
  
WINTER CLOUD.
  
FROST IN THE HOLIDAYS.
  
[The Boy from his bedroom-window]
  
OH! WERE MY LOVE.
  
SONG.
  
RISING OF JUPITER.
  
WINTER VERDURE.
  
EVENING PRAYER.
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BALLADS, Etc.
  
LADY ALICE.
  
KING HENRY'S HUNT.
  
THE TOUCHSTONE.
  
THREE FLOWERS.
  
THE WONDROUS WELL.
  
BLACK NIGHT.
  
THE POOR LITTLE MAIDEN.
  
SAINT MARGARET'S EVE.
  
THISTLEDOWN.
  
THE BUBBLE.
  
THE DIRTY OLD MAN.
  
VENUS OF THE NEEDLE.
  
THE WITCH-BRIDE.
  
THE LULLABY.
  
FORGET ME NOT.
  
THE OLD SEXTON.
  
SQUIRE CURTIS.
  
EMILY.
  
THE BULL.
  
THE MAIDS OF ELFIN-MERE.
  
MARY.
  
TOWER AND FIELD.
  
THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT.
  
SIR HUGH DE LA POLE.
  
DOWN ON THE SHORE.
  
OUTWARD BOUND.
  
HOMEWARD BOUND.
  
THE SLAVE-SHIP.
  
NANNY'S SAILOR LAD.
  
CAPE USHANT.
  
THE PILOT BOAT.
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TRANSLATED OR ADAPTED.
  
THE SAILOR.
  
KOSTAS.
  
THE FISHERMAN.
  
THE QUEEN'S PAGE.
  
TO THE TETTIX.

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AN EVENING.

A Sunset's mounded cloud;
A diamond evening-star;
Sad blue hills afar;
Love in his shroud.
Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a summer day;
Sweet Love dead.
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