Fifty Modern Poems Author:William Allingham General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Original Publisher: Bell and Daldy Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR re... more »print of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: O' VII. the Longest Day, Heav'n was gay, Roses and sunshine along the way. I loiter'd and stood, In listless mood, With many a sigh, I knew not why : Nothing pleasant; nothing good. On the Shortest Day, Heav'n was grey, Coldness and mire along the way. How or where Had I cast off care ? For light and strong, With a snatch of song, I slept through the mud and biting air. Moods, that drift, Or creep and shift, Or change, not a windy cloud more swift, No fetter found To hold you bound, -- Can I dare to go To the depth below Whence ye rise, overspreading air and ground ? There in the gulf Of my deep deep self, Stranger than land of dragon and elf, Acts and schemes, Hopes and dreams, Loves and praises, Follies, disgraces, Swarm, and each moment therewith teems. They rise like breath Of coming death, -- Of flow'rs that the soul remembereth, -- The Present, whose place Is a footsole-space, Being then as nought. But the Present hath wrought All this; and our Will is king, by God's grace. chapter{Section 4 /1 KEY, j VIII. ABBEY ASAROE. , grey is Abbey Asaroe, by Ballyshannon town, It has neither door nor window, the walls are broken down; The carven stones liescatter'd in briarand nettle-bed; The only feet are those that come at burial of the dead. A little rocky rivulet runs murmuring to the tide, Singing a song of ancient days, in sorrow, not...« less