ALL that's bright must fade, — The brightest still the fleetest ; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest Stars that shine and fall ; — The flower that drops in springing ; , These, alas ! are types of all To which our hearts are clinging.... Melodies (Irish melodies, National melodies). - Page 218by Thomas Moore - 1821Full view - About this book
| Music - 1821 - 566 pages
...withheld. The experiment is, I think, at all events worth making. Stars that shine and fall, The flow'r that drops in springing; These, alas! are types of all To which our hearts are clinging. Who would seek or prize Delights that end in aching; Who would trust to ties That ev'ry hour are breaking.... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish poetry (in English) - 1822 - 198 pages
...life's weedy shore, Like those street flowers from thce. ALL THAT'S BEIGHT MUST FADE, Aih — Indian. ALL that's bright must fade, The brightest still the...clinging. All that's bright must fade, The brightest itill the fleetest, All that's sweet was made, But to be lost wk»n sweetest ! Who would seek or prize... | |
| John Watson DALBY - 1822 - 202 pages
...in the affecting truths that " All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetestAll that sweet was made, But to be lost when sweetest. Stars...are types of all To which our hearts are clinging." I am, My dear C, Ever faithfully yours, JW DALBY. jf loi .iiitfn j OR, A TALE. A flower left lonely... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 314 pages
...The flower that drops in springing ;These, alas ! are types of all To which our hearts are clinging. All that's bright must fade, — The brightest still...that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest ! n. Who would seek or prize . Delights that end in aching?. Who would trust to ties That every hour... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 464 pages
...far to be In utter darkness lying, Than be bless'd with light and see That light for ever flyinj;. All that's bright must fade,— The brightest still...that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest I SO WARMLY WE MET. Hungarian Air. I. So .warmly we met and so fondly we parted, That which was the... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...Go plume thee thy light wings, and haste thee away ! * All thaf s bright nmst fade,— The sweetest still the fleetest ! All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest ! LONDON :— Published by HENRY L. HUNT, 38, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, and 28, Old Bond-street.... | |
| Actors - 1824 - 334 pages
...Poets, and all the Tribe of Geniusses that exist beneath the Moon : truly hath the Bard exclaimed,— " All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the...that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest." MISS POVEY. THE Study of Music has increased rapidly in this Country during the last Century, and the... | |
| Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 310 pages
...life's weedy shore, Like those sweet flowers from thee.* ALL THAT'S BRIGHT MUST FADE. Indian Mr. Ar.t. that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest,...lost when sweetest ; Stars that shine and fall, The flow'r that drops in springing, These, alas ! are types of all To which our hearts are clinging. Who... | |
| Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1825 - 374 pages
...upon life's weedy shore, Like those sweet flow'rs from thee. Jill that's bright must fade. Indian Air. All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest, All that's bright must fade, But to be lost when sweetest. Stars that shine and fall, The flow'r that droops in... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...shore, Like those sweet flowers from lliee. ALL THAT'S BltlGHT MUST FADE. Indian Air. ALL that 's bricht must fade, — The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made Hut to be lost when sweetest. St;irs tli.tt shine add fall ; — The flower that drops in springing... | |
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