William Allingham

Name: The Leprechaun; or Fairy Shoemaker
Author: William Allingham

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William Allingham published works such as Sixteen Poems, Rhymes for the Young Folk and The Winding Banks of Erne. These writings evoke Erne, Vols and Cassell's.

Quotes by William Allingham

William Allingham, The Winding Banks of Erne (c/1850)

“ Adieu, my dear companions on the winding banks of Erne!
Now measure from the Commons down to each end of the Purt,
From the Red Barn to the Abbey, I wish no one any hurt;
Search through the streets, and down the Mall and out to Portnasun,
If any foes of mine be there, I pardon every one:
I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me,
For my heart is sore and heavy at voyaging the sea.
My loving friends I'll bear in mind, and often fondly turn,
To think of Ballyshannon, and the winding banks of Erne. ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ In the barn where oat-chaff was flying round,
And the thumping flails made a pleasant sound.
Now summer or winter to me it's one;
But oh! for a day like the time that's gone.
I'd little care was it storm or shine,
If I had but peace in this heart of mine.
Oh! light and false is a young man's kiss,
And a foolish girl gives her soul for this.
Oh! light and short is the young man's blame,
And a helpless girl has the grief and shame. ”

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William Allingham, Once a Week, Series 1, Volume II…

“ But, just at the sound of the room-door shutting,
⁠A dreadful door in her soul stood wide.
Love, she had read of in sweet romances,—
⁠Love that could sorrow, but never fail,
Built her own palace of noble fancies,
⁠All the wide world a fairy tale. ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ But not a song to pleasure my unrest,
Or touch the tears unwept of bitter love;
Some spake, methought, with pity, some as if in jest.
To every word
Of every bird
I listen'd, and replied as it behove. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Ring-ting! I wish I were a Primrose,
A bright yellow Primrose blowing in the Spring!
The stooping boughs above me,
The wandering bee to love me,
The fern and moss to creep across,
And the Elm-tree for our king! ”

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William Allingham, The Winding Banks of Erne (c/1850)

“ No more on pleasant evenings we'll saunter down the Mall,
Where the trout is rising to the fly, the salmon to the fall,
The boat comes straining on her net, and heavily she creeps,
Cast off, cast off!—she feels the oars, and to her berth she sweeps ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ DUNDRUM
MCMV CONTENTS.
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LET ME SING OF WHAT I KNOW
A wild west Coast, a little Town,
Where little Folk go up and down,
Tides flow and winds blow:
Night and Tempest and the Sea,
Human Will and Human Fate:
What is little, what is great?
Howsoe'er the answer be,
Let me sing of what I know.
THE WINDING BANKS OF ERNE
Adieu to Belashanny! ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Raths, very ancient forts or entrenched dwelling-places, usually on hills; the remains of these are common in Ireland, and resemble what are called "Rings" in England.
Yellow bird, the yellow bunting, or "yorlin."
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YES OR NO?
Yes or No?
Stay or Go?
He never can tell, he never will know!
We must not wait,
We'll all be late,
While Barnaby puzzles his queer little pate!
What do you say?
Off and away!
Make up your mind to go or to stay.
Fix on your plan,
Step out like a man,
And follow your nose as fast as you can! ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ The bridegroom ran quickly, he held her, he kiss'd her,
He spoke loud and low, and listen'd full fain;
He call'd on her waiting-maids round to assist her
But nothing could bring the lost breath back again.
O carry her softly! the grave is made ready;
At head and at foot plant a laurel-bush green ”

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William Allingham, The Leprechaun; or Fairy Shoemaker

“ Buskins for a fairy prince,
Brogues for his son,--
Pay me well, pay me well,
When the job is done! "
The rogue was mine, beyond a doubt.
I stared at him; he stared at me;
"Servant, Sir!" "Humph!" says he,
And pull'd a snuff-box out.
He took a long pinch, look'd better pleased,
The queer little Lepracaun;
Offer'd the box with a whimsical grace,-
Pouf! he flung the dust in my face,
And, while I sneezed,
Was gone!
Notes ↑ "Yellow bird", the yellow-bunting, or yorlin. ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ Or when, as winds and waters keep
A hush more dead than any sleep,
Still morns to stiller evenings creep,
And Day and Night and Day go by; ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ Scream'd Chaffinch, 'Sweet, sweet, sweet!
Pretty lovey, come and meet me here!'
'Chaffinch,' quoth I, 'be dumb awhile, in fear
Thy darling prove no better than a cheat,
And never come, or fly when wintry days appear.'
Yet from a twig,
With voice so big,
The little fowl his utterance did repeat.
[29] Then I, 'The man forlorn
Hears Earth send up a foolish noise aloft.'
'And what'll he do? What'll he do?' scoff'd
The Blackbird, standing, in an ancient thorn,
Then spread his sooty wings and flitted to the croft
With cackling laugh ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Each containing 64 pages, with Illustrations on every page, and handsomely bound in cloth, 1s.
Bible Chimes. Contains Bible Verses for Every Day in the Month. Daily Chimes. Verses from the Poets for Every Day in the Month. Holy Chimes. Verses for Every Sunday in the Year. Old World Chimes. Verses from old writers for Every Day in the Month.
New Five Shilling Books for Boys. With Original Illustrations, printed on a tint. Cloth gilt, 5s. each. ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ The stranger is lord of Ireland;
we live in an evil day.'
'Days will come and go,' he said,
'and the world will pass away,
In Heaven a day is a thousand years,
a thousand years are a day.'
'Now give me absolution ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Transfer of Land by Registration. 6d. Reform of the English Land System. 3d.
Colonies and India, Our, How we Got Them, and Why we Keep Them. By Prof. C. Ransome. 1s.
Columbus, Christopher, The Life and Voyages of. By Washington Irving. Three Vols. 7s. 6d.
Cookery, Cassell's Dictionary of. Containing about Nine Thousand Recipes. 7s. 6d.; Roxburgh, 10s. 6d.
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Cookery, A Year's. By Phyllis Browne. Cloth gilt or oiled cloth, 3s. 6d.
Cook Book, Catherine Owen's New. 4s.
Co-operators, Working Men: What they have Done, and What they are Doing. By A. H. Dyke-Acland, M.P., and B. Jones. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Commentary, The New Testament, for English Readers. Edited by the Rt. Rev. C. J. Ellicott, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. In Three Volumes, 21s. each.
Vol. I.—The Four Gospels. Vol. II.—The Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians. Vol. III.—The remaining Books of the New Testament.
Commentary, The Old Testament, for English Readers. Edited by the Rt. Rev. C. J. Ellicott, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Complete in 5 Vols., 21s. each. ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Health, The Book of. By Eminent Physicians and Surgeons. Cloth, 21s.; half-morocco, 25s.
Health, The Influence of Clothing on. By F. Treves, F.R.C.S. 2s.
Heavens, The Story of the. By Sir Robert Stawell Ball, LL.D., F.R.S., Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Coloured Plates and Wood Engravings. 31s. 6d.
Heroes of Britain in Peace and War. In Two Vols., with 300 Original Illustrations. Cloth, 5s. each. In one Vol., library binding, 10s. 6d.
Homes, Our, and How to Make them Healthy. By Eminent Authorities. Illustrated. 15s.; half-morocco, 21s. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Energy in Nature. By Wm. Lant Carpenter, B.Sc. 80 Illustrations. 3s. 6d.
England, Cassell's Illustrated History of. With 2,000 Illustrations. Ten Vols., 4to, 9s. each.
English History, The Dictionary of. Cloth, 21s.; Roxburgh, 25s.
English Literature, Library of. By Prof. Henry Morley. Complete in 5 vols., 7s. 6d. each.
Vol. I.—Shorter English Poems. Vol. II.—Illustrations of English Religion. Vol. III.—English Plays. Vol. IV.—Shorter Works in English Prose. Vol. V.—Sketches of Longer Works in English Verse and Prose. Five Volumes handsomely bound in half-morocco, £5 5s. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Children of all Nations. Their Homes, their Schools, their Playgrounds. Illustrated. 5s.
Tim Trumble's "Little Mother." By C. L. Matéaux. Illustrated. 5s.
The Wonderland of Work. By C. L. Matéaux. Illustrated. 7s. 6d.
A Moonbeam Tangle. Original Fairy Tales. By Sydney Shadbolt. Illustrated. 3s, 6d.
CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, Ludgate Hill, London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, Ludgate Hill, London.
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Bibles and Religious Works.
Bible, The Crown Illustrated. With about 1,000 Original Illustrations. With References, &c. 1,248 pages, crown 4to, cloth, 7s. 6d.
Bible, Cassell's Illustrated Family. With 900 Illustrations. Leather, gilt edges, £2 10s.; full morocco, £3 10s.
Bible Dictionary, Cassell's. With nearly 600 Illustrations. 7s. 6d.
Bible Educator, The. Edited by the Very Rev. Dean Plumptre, D.D. With Illustrations, Maps, &c. Four Vols., cloth, 6s. each.
Bible Work at Home and Abroad. Yearly Volume, 3s. 6d. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Two Vols. 2s. 6d. Hood. Two Vols. 2s. 6d. Longfellow. Two Vols. 2s. 6d. Milton. Two Vols. 2s. 6d. Scott. Two Vols. 2s. 6d. Sheridan and Goldsmith. 2 Vols. 2s. 6d. Wordsworth. Two Vols. 2s. 6d. Shakespeare. Twelve Vols., in box, 15s.
Police Code, and Manual of the Criminal Law. By C. E. Howard Vincent, M.P., late Director of Criminal Investigations. 2s.
Popular Library, Cassell's. A Series of New and Original Works. Cloth, 1s. each.
The Russian Empire. The Religious Revolution in the Sixteenth Century. English Journalism. The Huguenots. Our Colonial Empire. The Young Man in the Battle of Life. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Edinburgh, Old and New, Cassell's. With 600 Illustrations. Three Vols., 9s. each; library binding, £1 10s. the set.
Educational Year-Book, The. 6s.
Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. By Prof. G. Ebers. Translated by Clara Bell, with Notes by Samuel Birch, LL.D., &c. Two Vols. With 800 Original Engravings. Vol. I., £2 5s.; Vol. II., £2 12s. 6d.
Electricity in the Service of Man. With nearly 850 Illustrations. 21s.
Electrician's Pocket-Book, The. By Gordon Wigan, M.A. 5s.
Encyclopædic Dictionary, The. A New and Original Work of Reference to all the Words in the English Language. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Crown 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.
Horse, the Book of the. By Samuel Sidney. With 25 fac-simile Coloured Plates. Demy 4to, 35s.; half-morocco, £2 5s.
Horses, the Simple Ailments of. By W. F. Illustrated. 5s.
Household Guide, Cassell's. With Illustrations and Coloured Plates. New and Revised Edition, complete in Four Vols., 20s.
How Women may Earn a Living. By Mercy Grogan. 1s.
India, Cassell's History of. By James Grant. With 400 Illustrations. 15s.
India, the Coming Struggle for. By Prof. Arminius Vambéry. 5s.
India: the Land and the People. By Sir James Caird, K.C.B. 10s. 6d. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Paper covers, 3d.; cloth, 6d. (A List sent post free on application.)
Natural History, Cassell's Concise. By E. Perceval Wright, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. With several Hundred Illustrations. 7s. 6d. Roxburgh, 10s. 6d.
Natural History, Cassell's New. Edited by Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.R.S., F.G.S. With Contributions by Eminent Scientific Writers. Complete in Six Vols. With about 2,000 high-class Illustrations. Extra crown 4to, cloth, 9s. each.
Nature, Short Studies from. Illustrated. 5s.
Neutral Tint, A Course of Painting in. With Twenty-four Plates by R. P. Leitch. ”

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William Allingham, Sixteen Poems

“ And stars move calmly overhead.
Here end sixteen poems, written by William Allingham, and selected for re-printing by William Butler Yeats. Printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum, in the county of Dublin, Ireland, finished on the fifteenth day of September, in the year 1905. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Six New and Original Drawings by Frederick Barnard, reproduced in Photogravure. 21s.
Three and Sixpenny Library of Standard Tales, &c. All Illustrated and bound in cloth gilt. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. each.
Jane Austen and her Works. Better than Good. Mission Life in Greece and Palestine. The Dingy House at Kensington. The Romance of Trade. The Three Homes. My Guardian. School Girls. Deepdale Vicarage. In Duty Bound. The Half Sisters. Peggy Oglivie's Inheritance. The Family Honour. Esther West. Working to Win. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ With Portraits. Three Vols. 36s.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Édition de Luxe. Illustrated with Twelve Superb Photogravures from Original Drawings by F. Dicksee, A.R.A. £5 5s.
Shakspere, The Leopold. With 400 Illustrations, and an Introduction by F. J. Furnivall. Small 4to, cloth, 6s.; cloth gilt, 7s. 6d.; half-morocco, 10s. 6d.; full morocco, £1 1s.
Shakspere, The Royal. With Exquisite Steel Plates and Wood Engravings. Three Vols. 15s. each.
Shakespeare, Cassell's Quarto Edition. Edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, and containing about 600 Illustrations by H. C. Selous. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ By John F. Moss. 1s.; cloth, 2s.
Historical Course for Schools, Cassell's. Illustrated throughout. I.—Stories from English History, 1s. II.—The Simple Outline of English History, 1s. 3d. III.—The Class History of England, 2s. 6d.
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Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary. By J. R. Beard, D.D., and C. Beard, B.A. Crown 8vo, 914 pp., 3s. 6d.
Little Folks' History of England. By Isa Craig-Knox. With 30 Illustrations. 1s. 6d.
Making of the Home, The: A Book of Domestic Economy for School and Home Use. By Mrs. Samuel A. Barnett. 1s. 6d. ”

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William Allingham, Rhymes for the Young Folk

“ Series. Four Books, each containing about 50 Illustrations. Price 6d. each; or cloth gilt, 1s. each.
Baby's Album. Dolly's Album. Fairy's Album. Pussy's Album.
Illustrated Books for the Little Ones. Containing interesting Stories. All Illustrated. 1s. each.
Indoors and Out. Some Farm Friends. Those Golden Sands. Little Mothers and their Children. Our Pretty Pets. Our Schoolday Hours Creatures Tame. Creatures Wild.
Shilling Story Books. All Illustrated, and containing Interesting Stories. ”

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