How Dear to Me the Hour (Thomas Moore Poems)
How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams ...
How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, For then sweet dreams ...
One bumper at parting! -- though many Have circled the board since we met, The fullest, the saddest of any ...
They know not my heart, who believe there can be One stain of this earth in its feelings for thee; ...
I saw thy form in youthful prime, Nor thought that pale decay Would steal before the steps of Time, And ...
Sublime was the warning that liberty spoke, And grand was the moment when Spaniards awoke Into life and revenge from ...
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes, That chase one another like waves of the deep -- Each ...
I wish I was by that dim Lake, Where sinful souls their farewell take Of this vain world, and half-way ...
Sweet Innisfallen, fare thee well, May calm and sunshine long be thine! How fair thou art let others tell -- ...
Though humble the banquet to which I invite thee, Thou'lt find there the best a poor bard can command; Eyes, ...
I'd mourn the hopes that leave me, If thy smiles had left me too; I'd weep when friends deceive me, ...
Written on Returning a Blank Book Take back the virgin page, White and unwritten still; Some hand, more calm and ...
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking, Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the dead ...
In the morning of life, when its cares are unknown, And its pleasures in all their new lustre begin, When ...
Down in the valley come meet me to-night, And I'll tell you your fortune truly As ever 'twas told, by ...
Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave Remember the glories of Brien the brave, Though the days of the hero ...
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
It is not the tear at this moment shed, When the cold turf has just been laid o'er him, That ...
When in death I shall calmly recline, O bear my heart to my mistress dear, Tell her it lived upon ...
When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved, Be his faults and his follies forgot by thee ...
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, ...
Lesbia hath a beaming eye, But no one knows for whom it beameth; Right and left its arrows fly, But ...
OFT, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around ...
Whene'er I see those smiling eyes, So full of hope, and joy, and light, As if no cloud could ever ...
By the hope within us springing, Herald of to-morrow's strife; By that sun, whose light is bringing Chains or freedom, ...
"Here we dwell, in holiest bowers, Where angels of light o'er our orisans bend; Where sighs of devotion and breathings ...
In yonder valley there dwelt, alone, A youth, whose moments had calmly flown, 'Till spells came o'er him, and, day ...
While gazing on the moon's light, A moment from her smile I turn'd, To look at orbs that, more bright, ...
Dear Harp of my Country! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of Silence had hung o'er thee long. ...
Oh! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove; When my dream of life, from morn till ...
Strike the gay harp! see the moon is on high, And, as true to her beam as the tides of ...
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