William Allingham Quotes
Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this
Than any other thing!
Citations
Allingham, William. "The Sailor." Fifty Modern Poems, Bell and Daldy, 1865, p. 34.
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William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem 'The Faeries' was much anthologised; but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator.