“Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.”
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✒️ #WilliamAllingham, Irish poet, was #BOTD 19 March 1821. #Poetry
In just a few lines, William Allingham reminds us how the simplest spring scene, ducks, sky, clouds, can linger for a lifetime. A tiny lyric about memory, tenderness, and how ordinary beauty becomes sacred with time.
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Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.
✒ #WilliamAllingham, Irish poet ("Day & Night Songs"), #DOTD 18 November 1889. #Poetry #Literature
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Not like Homer would I write,
Not like Dante if I might,
Not like Shakespeare at his best,
Not like Goethe or the rest,
Like myself, however small,
Like myself, or not at all.
✒ #WilliamAllingham, Irish poet ("Day & Night Songs"), #DOTD 18 November 1889. #Poetry #Literature
