William Allingham Quotes

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. - William Allingham

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. - William Allingham

I believe in Success,
And in Comfort no less
I believe all the rest is but patter. - William Allingham

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 Allingham

But this is not my little bed;
That time is far away;
With strangers now I live instead,
From dreary day to day. - William Allingham

Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother's kisssweeter this
Than any other thing! - William Allingham

Autumn's the mellow time. - William Allingham

And in a chair well-known
My mother sat, and did not tire
With reading all alone.
If I should make the slightest sound
To show that I'm awake,
She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,
My pillow softly shake;
Kiss me, and turn my face to see
The shadows on the wall,
And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,
Till fast asleep I fall. - William Allingham

Alas! in winter, dead and dark,
Where can poor Robin go? - William Allingham

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