The life of Thomas Moore. Centenary edDublin, 1879 - 256 páginas |
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... thoughts with that enthusiasm for Irish freedom which , in him , was an hereditary as well as a national feeling - him- self being the second martyr his father had given to the cause . " Simple in all his habits , and with a repose of ...
... thoughts with that enthusiasm for Irish freedom which , in him , was an hereditary as well as a national feeling - him- self being the second martyr his father had given to the cause . " Simple in all his habits , and with a repose of ...
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... thoughts . I retain in my memory but one other dream — for such do events so long past appear— which can in any respect be associated with the grand vision I have just been describing ; and how- ever different the nature of their ...
... thoughts . I retain in my memory but one other dream — for such do events so long past appear— which can in any respect be associated with the grand vision I have just been describing ; and how- ever different the nature of their ...
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... thought of the days , when to pleasure alone My heart ever granted a wish or a sigh ; When the saddest emotion my bosom had known Was pity for those who were wiser than I ! I felt how the pure , intellectual fire In luxury loses its ...
... thought of the days , when to pleasure alone My heart ever granted a wish or a sigh ; When the saddest emotion my bosom had known Was pity for those who were wiser than I ! I felt how the pure , intellectual fire In luxury loses its ...
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... thoughts that long have slept , Kindling former smiles again , In faded eyes that long have wept ! Like the gale , that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers , Is the grateful breath of song , That once was heard in happier hours . Fill ...
... thoughts that long have slept , Kindling former smiles again , In faded eyes that long have wept ! Like the gale , that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers , Is the grateful breath of song , That once was heard in happier hours . Fill ...
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... thoughts was simple , it was in general natural and graceful , and in our popular songs in the native dialect , passages might be pointed out to the classic reader not unworthy of lyrical poets of higher fame , so faithfully was the ...
... thoughts was simple , it was in general natural and graceful , and in our popular songs in the native dialect , passages might be pointed out to the classic reader not unworthy of lyrical poets of higher fame , so faithfully was the ...
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Página 52 - When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam. But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadow dims her way.
Página 58 - There's a bower of roses by BENDEMEER'S' stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 43 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died, They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him.
Página 43 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing : But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 60 - And how felt he, the wretched man Reclining there, while memory ran O'er many a year of guilt and strife, — Flew o'er the dark flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace. "There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child!
Página 52 - The friends who in our sunshine live, When winter comes, are flown, And he who has but tears to give Must weep those tears alone.
Página 42 - Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid : Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps...
Página 53 - How vain was their boasting! — the Lord hath but spoken, And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave? Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed — His people are free!
Página 60 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones — " thou blessed child ! When, young and haply pure as thou, I look'd and pray'd like thee — but now — " He hung his head — each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept ! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence ! In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. "There's a drop...
Página 44 - DEAR Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song...