Poem by William Allingham

Writing

A man who keeps a diary, pays
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. 

1. Wayconnell Tower
2. A Burial-place
3. To the Castle of Donegal
4. In Highgate Cemetery
5. The Emigrant’s Adieu to Ballyshannon

Robert Herrick Writing ("When words we want, Love teacheth to indite")

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