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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by Sidheseeker
on:    28 November 2002

Here's five little things by William Allingham.. some well known.. some not..

A Dream..
The Fairies..
The Lepracaun..
The Maids Of Elfin-Mere

The Bubble..
William Allingham

 

1000 Years of Irish Poetry: The Gaelic & Anglo-Irish Poets from Pagan Times to the Present
edited by Kathleen Hoagland
Old Saybrook: Konecky & Konecky, 1975

See the pretty Planet!
Floating sphere!
Faintest breeze will fan it
Far or near;

World as light as feather;
Moonshine rays,
Rainbow tints together,
As it plays; Drooping, sinking, falling,
Night to earth,
Mounting, whirling, sailing,
Full of mirth;

Life there, welling, flowing,
Waving round;
Pictures coming, going,
Without sound.

Quick now, be this airy
Globe repelled!
Never can the fairy
Star be held. Touched -- it in a twinkle
Disappears!
Leaving but a sprinkle,
As of tears.


--- The End ---

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Poetry of Ireland   (Irish poets writing in English)

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