https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:49:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/allingham-william/20339/ https://wist.info/allingham-william/20339/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:57:48 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=20339 To think all you say, is but candour;
To say all you think, would be slander.

William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish poet, diarist
Blackberries Picked Off Many Bushes (1884)
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Due toll to many tedious days;
But life becomes eventful — then,
His busy hand forgets the pen.
Most books, indeed, are records less
Of fulness than of emptiness.

William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish poet, diarist
Diary (1864-03-24/28) [eds. Allingham and Radford (1907)] ]]> https://wist.info/allingham-william/13305/feed/ 0 13305 https://wist.info/allingham-william/78517/ https://wist.info/allingham-william/78517/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:48:20 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78517 Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a hunting,
For fear of little men.

William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish poet, diarist
Poem (1849-01), “The Fairies: A Nursery Song,” Poems (1850)
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