John Francis Waller

  • The Spinning-Wheel Song

    Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning;
    Close by the window young Eileen is spinning;
    Bent o’er the fire, her blind grandmother, sitting,
    Is croaning, and moaning, and drowsily knitting—
    “Eileen, achora, I hear some one tapping.”
    “’T is the ivy, dear...

  • Kitty Neil

    “ah! sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from that wheel,—
      Your neat little foot will be weary with spinning!
    Come trip down with me to the sycamore-tree:
      Half the parish is there, and the dance is beginning.
    The sun is gone down, but the full harvest moon
      ...