Love and the Novice (Thomas Moore Poems)
"Here we dwell, in holiest bowers, Where angels of light o'er our orisans bend; Where sighs of devotion and breathings ...
"Here we dwell, in holiest bowers, Where angels of light o'er our orisans bend; Where sighs of devotion and breathings ...
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes, That chase one another like waves of the deep -- Each ...
My gentle Harp, once more I waken The sweetness of thy slumbering strain; In tears our last farewell was taken, ...
We may roam through this world, like a child at a feast, Who but sips of a sweet, and then ...
Ne'er ask the hour -- what is it to us How Time deals out his treasures? The golden moments lent ...
While gazing on the moon's light, A moment from her smile I turn'd, To look at orbs that, more bright, ...
Of all the fair months, that round the sun In light-link'd dance their circles run, Sweet May, shine thou for ...
Oh! doubt me not -- the season Is o'er when Folly made me rove, And now the vestal, Reason, Shall ...
Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own, In a blue summer ocean, far off and alone, Where ...
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light, And as free from a pang as they seem to you ...
Oh, banquet not in those shining bowers, Where Youth resorts, but come to me, For mine's a garden of faded ...
Oh, could we do with this world of ours As thou dost with thy garden bowers, Reject the weeds and ...
Oh, ye Dead! oh, ye Dead! whom we know by the light you give From your cold gleaming eyes, though ...
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
When through life unblest we rove, Losing all that made life dear, Should some notes we used to love, In ...
Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief To simpleton sages and reasoning fools; This moment's a flower ...
One bumper at parting! -- though many Have circled the board since we met, The fullest, the saddest of any ...
Like the bright lamp, that shone in Kildare's holy fane, And burn'd through long ages of darkness and storm, Is ...
She sung of Love, while o'er her lyre The rosy rays of evening fell, As if to feed with their ...
If thou'lt be mine, the treasures of air, Of earth, and sea, shall lie at thy feet; Whatever in Fancy's ...
Strike the gay harp! see the moon is on high, And, as true to her beam as the tides of ...
In the morning of life, when its cares are unknown, And its pleasures in all their new lustre begin, When ...
Though dark are our sorrows, today we'll forget them, And smile through our tears, like a sunbeam in showers: There ...
I've a secret to tell thee, but hush! not here -- Oh! not where the world its vigil keeps: I'll ...
They know not my heart, who believe there can be One stain of this earth in its feelings for thee; ...
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