Author: William Allingham (1824 - 1889)

Text Compilations

• Day and Night Songs
• Evil May-Day &c.
• Flower Pieces and Other Poems
• Irish Songs and Poems
• Poems
• Rhymes for the Young Folk
• Songs, Ballads and Stories

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• Across the sea (I walked in the lonesome evening) - Bernard Farebrother, James Graham White, M. L. Wood
• Adieu to Ballyshanny ! where I was bred and born (from Poems) (The emigrant's adieu to Ballyshanny)
• Adieu to Ballyshanny ! where I was bred and born (from Poems) - Herbert Hughes (The winding banks of Erne)
• A Memory (Four ducks on a pond) (from Evil May-Day &c.) - Edward Toner Cone, Blair Fairchild
• Among the heather (One evening walking out, I o'er took a modest colleen) (from Poems)
• Among the heather (One evening walking out, I o'er took a modest colleen) (from Poems) - Charles Wood
• A swing song (Swing, swing) (from Rhymes for the Young Folk)
• A swing song (Swing, swing) (from Rhymes for the Young Folk) - Udo Kasemets
• Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! (from Poems) (Down on the shore)
• Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! (from Poems) - C. B. Ingham (Down on the shore)
• Down on the shore (Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!) (from Poems)
• Down on the shore (Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!) (from Poems) - C. B. Ingham
• Fairies and Elves!/ Gone is the night (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin)
• Fairies and Elves! (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Fairy dawn)
• Fairies (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - Hubert Bath
• Fairy dawn (Fairies and Elves!) (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir
• Fairy night (Moon soon sets now) (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir
• Fairy noon (Hear the call!) (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir
• Four ducks on a pond (from Evil May-Day &c.) - Edward Toner Cone, Blair Fairchild (A Memory)
• Four Ducks on a Pond (Four ducks on a pond) (from Evil May-Day &c.)
• Four ducks on a pond (Four ducks on a pond) (from Evil May-Day &c.) - Walter Butler, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Alicia Adélaïda Needham, Kurt George Roger, Louis Versel
• Four ducks on a pond (from Evil May-Day &c.) (Four Ducks on a Pond)
• Four ducks on a pond (from Evil May-Day &c.) - Walter Butler, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Alicia Adélaïda Needham, Kurt George Roger, Louis Versel (Four ducks on a pond)
• Four ducks on a pond (from Evil May-Day &c.) - Bainbridge Crist (What a Little Thing)
• Good-bye, good-bye to Summer! (from Poems) - (William) Havergal Brian, Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (Goodbye to Summer)
• Good-bye, good-bye to Summer! (from Poems) (Robin Redbreast)
• Good-bye, good-bye to Summer! (from Poems) - Henry Clough-Leighter, Friedrich Gernsheim, J. M. Hubbard, E. W. Johns, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, Eric Harding Thiman (Robin Redbreast)
• Goodbye to Summer (Good-bye, good-bye to Summer!) (from Poems) - (William) Havergal Brian, Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer
• Greet thee kindly, Wayside Well (from Day and Night Songs) (The wayside well)
• Greet thee kindly, Wayside Well (from Day and Night Songs) - Alexander Samuel Cooper (The wayside well)
• Head the ship for England! (from Day and Night Songs) (Homeward bound)
• Head the ship for England! (from Day and Night Songs) - Alec Rowley (Sailing home)
• Head the ships for England! (from Day and Night Songs) (Homeward bound)
• Hear the call!/ Fays be still! (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) (The noon call)
• Hear the call! (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Fairy noon)
• Hear the call! (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) (The noon call)
• Heave at the windlass! -- Heave O, cheerly, men! (from Day and Night Songs) - Felix Harold White (Heave at the windlass)
• Heave at the windlass! -- Heave O, cheerly, men! (from Day and Night Songs) (Windlass song)
• Heave at the windlass! -- Heave O, cheerly, men! (from Day and Night Songs) - Edward Elgar, Sir, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Alec Rowley (Windlass song)
• Heave at the windlass (Heave at the windlass! -- Heave O, cheerly, men!) (from Day and Night Songs) - Felix Harold White
• Homeward bound (Head the ship for England!) (from Day and Night Songs)
• I walked in the lonesome evening - Bernard Farebrother, James Graham White, M. L. Wood (Across the sea)
• I walked in the lonesome evening (Song -- Across the Sea)
• Kitty O'Hea (Now, Kitty O'Hea, darling jewel) (from Irish Songs and Poems)
• Kitty O'Hea (Now, Kitty O'Hea, darling jewel) (from Irish Songs and Poems) - Alicia Adélaïda Needham
• Little Cowboy, what have you heard - Hubert Bath (The elfin shoemaker)
• Little Cowboy, what have you heard (The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker)
• Lovely Mary Donnelly (Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best) (from Day and Night Songs)
• Lovely Mary Donnelly (Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best) (from Day and Night Songs) - Theodore T. Barker, John Philip Sousa
• Moon soon sets now (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Fairy night)
• Nick Spence, Nick Spence - (Gerald) Graham Peel (Nick Spence)
• Nick Spence (Nick Spence, Nick Spence) - (Gerald) Graham Peel
• Now, Kitty O'Hea, darling jewel (from Irish Songs and Poems) (Kitty O'Hea)
• Now, Kitty O'Hea, darling jewel (from Irish Songs and Poems) - Alicia Adélaïda Needham (Kitty O'Hea)
• Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best (from Day and Night Songs) (Lovely Mary Donnelly)
• Oh, lovely Mary Donnelly, my joy, my only best (from Day and Night Songs) - Theodore T. Barker, John Philip Sousa (Lovely Mary Donnelly)
• One evening walking out, I o'er took a modest colleen (from Poems) (Among the heather)
• One evening walking out, I o'er took a modest colleen (from Poems) - Charles Wood (Among the heather)
• O Spirit of the Summertime (O spirit sweet of summertime) (from Poems) - Vernon Duke, Alfred James Sutton
• O spirit sweet of summertime (from Poems) - Vernon Duke, Alfred James Sutton (O Spirit of the Summertime)
• O spirit sweet of summertime (from Poems) (Song)
• O spirit sweet of summertime (from Poems) - Charles Whitney Coombs (Spirit of Summertime)
• O spirit sweet of summertime (from Poems) - Ward Stephens (Summertime)
• Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose (from Day and Night Songs) - William Wallace Gilchrist (The primrose)
• Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose (from Day and Night Songs) (Wishing)
• Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose (from Day and Night Songs) - Francis Boott, Harvey Worthington Loomis, William Otto Miessner, Elbridge Ward Newton, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (Wishing)
• Robin Redbreast (Good-bye, good-bye to Summer!) (from Poems)
• Robin Redbreast (Good-bye, good-bye to Summer!) (from Poems) - Henry Clough-Leighter, Friedrich Gernsheim, J. M. Hubbard, E. W. Johns, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir, Eric Harding Thiman
• Sailing home (Head the ship for England!) (from Day and Night Songs) - Alec Rowley
• Song -- Across the Sea (I walked in the lonesome evening)
• Song (O spirit sweet of summertime) (from Poems)
• Spirit of Summertime (O spirit sweet of summertime) (from Poems) - Charles Whitney Coombs
• Summertime (O spirit sweet of summertime) (from Poems) - Ward Stephens
• Swing, swing,/ sing, sing (from Rhymes for the Young Folk) (A swing song)
• Swing, swing (from Rhymes for the Young Folk) (A swing song)
• Swing, swing (from Rhymes for the Young Folk) - Udo Kasemets (A swing song)
• The Abbot of Inisfalen awoke ere dawn of day (The Abbot of Inisfalen)
• The Abbot of Inisfalen (The Abbot of Inisfalen)
• The Abbot of Inisfalen (The Abbot of Inisfalen) - Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer
• The Abbot of Inisfalen (The Abbot of Inisfalen)
• The Abbot of Inisfalen - Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer (The Abbot of Inisfalen)
• The elfin shoemaker (Little Cowboy, what have you heard) - Hubert Bath
• The emigrant's adieu to Ballyshanny (Adieu to Ballyshanny ! where I was bred and born) (from Poems)
• The fairies (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems)
• The fairies (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Seóirse Bodley, Bernard van Dieren, Henry Kimball Hadley, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Arthur T. Robinson, Mansel Treharne Thomas, Frank Edwin Ward
• The Fairy Folk (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - (Mrs.) Jessie Lovel Gaynor, née Smith, Louis Gruenberg
• The fields in May (What can better please) (from Flower Pieces and Other Poems)
• The fields in May (What can better please) (from Flower Pieces and Other Poems) - Charles Whitney Coombs
• The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker (Little Cowboy, what have you heard)
• The little men (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - Paul Mimart
• The noon call (Hear the call!) (from Songs, Ballads and Stories - Prince Brightkin)
• The primrose (Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose) (from Day and Night Songs) - William Wallace Gilchrist
• The wayside well (Greet thee kindly, Wayside Well) (from Day and Night Songs)
• The wayside well (Greet thee kindly, Wayside Well) (from Day and Night Songs) - Alexander Samuel Cooper
• The winding banks of Erne (Adieu to Ballyshanny ! where I was bred and born) (from Poems) - Herbert Hughes
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - Hubert Bath (Fairies)
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) (The fairies)
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Seóirse Bodley, Bernard van Dieren, Henry Kimball Hadley, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Arthur T. Robinson, Mansel Treharne Thomas, Frank Edwin Ward (The fairies)
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - (Mrs.) Jessie Lovel Gaynor, née Smith, Louis Gruenberg (The Fairy Folk)
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - Paul Mimart (The little men)
• Up the aery mountain (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - James Henry Baseden Butt, Alicia Adélaïda Needham, Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Gladys Taylor, Felix Harold White, (Hubert) Leslie Woodgate
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - James Henry Baseden Butt, Alicia Adélaïda Needham, Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Gladys Taylor, Felix Harold White, (Hubert) Leslie Woodgate (Up the aery mountain)
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - George Rathbone, Henry L. Read (Up the airy mountain)
• Up the aery mountain (from Poems) - Mirrie Irma Hill (We daren't go ahunting)
• Up the airy mountain (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - George Rathbone, Henry L. Read
• We daren't go ahunting (Up the aery mountain) (from Poems) - Mirrie Irma Hill
• What a Little Thing (Four ducks on a pond) (from Evil May-Day &c.) - Bainbridge Crist
• What can better please (from Flower Pieces and Other Poems) (The fields in May)
• What can better please (from Flower Pieces and Other Poems) - Charles Whitney Coombs (The fields in May)
• Windlass song (Heave at the windlass! -- Heave O, cheerly, men!) (from Day and Night Songs)
• Windlass song (Heave at the windlass! -- Heave O, cheerly, men!) (from Day and Night Songs) - Edward Elgar, Sir, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Alec Rowley
• Wishing (Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose) (from Day and Night Songs)
• Wishing (Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose) (from Day and Night Songs) - Francis Boott, Harvey Worthington Loomis, William Otto Miessner, Elbridge Ward Newton, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir

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Last update: 2018-12-13 17:09:01