After the Battle (Thomas Moore Poems)
Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings show'd the distant hill, Where those who lost that dreadful day Stood ...
Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings show'd the distant hill, Where those who lost that dreadful day Stood ...
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
As slow our ship her foamy track Against the wind was cleaving, Her trembling pennant still look'd back To that ...
By the hope within us springing, Herald of to-morrow's strife; By that sun, whose light is bringing Chains or freedom, ...
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still ...
Farewell! but whenever you welcome the hour That awakens the night-song of mirth in your bower, Then think of the ...
Oh! Arranmore, loved Arranmore, How oft I dream of thee, And of those days when, by thy shore, I wander'd ...
Oh! doubt me not -- the season Is o'er when Folly made me rove, And now the vestal, Reason, Shall ...
The valley lay smiling before me, Where lately I left her behind; Yet I trembled, and something hung o'er me, ...
They may rail at this life -- from the hour I began it I found it a life full of ...
While gazing on the moon's light, A moment from her smile I turn'd, To look at orbs that, more bright, ...
Wreath the bowl With flowers of soul, The brightest Wit can find us, We'll take a flight Towards heaven to-night, ...
You remember Ellen, our hamlet's pride, How meekly she bless'd her humble lot, When the stranger, William, had made her ...
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