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... hand , And the sweetest of odours would yield . And indeed it is fragrant and fair , But if it were breath'd on by thee , It would bloom with a livelier air , And would surely be sweeter to me . Let the odourous gale of thy breath ...
... hand , And the sweetest of odours would yield . And indeed it is fragrant and fair , But if it were breath'd on by thee , It would bloom with a livelier air , And would surely be sweeter to me . Let the odourous gale of thy breath ...
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Thomas Moore. But see , the wind draws kindly aft , All hands are up , the yards to square , And now the floating stu'n - sails waft Our stately ship through waves and air . Oh ! then I think that yet for me Some breeze of fortune thus ...
Thomas Moore. But see , the wind draws kindly aft , All hands are up , the yards to square , And now the floating stu'n - sails waft Our stately ship through waves and air . Oh ! then I think that yet for me Some breeze of fortune thus ...
Page 109
... long has slept in blame . And when they tread the ruin'd Isle , Where rest alike the lord and slave ; They'll wondering ask how hands so vile , Could conquer hearts so brave . Are Erin's sons so good or so cold , As MELODIES . 109.
... long has slept in blame . And when they tread the ruin'd Isle , Where rest alike the lord and slave ; They'll wondering ask how hands so vile , Could conquer hearts so brave . Are Erin's sons so good or so cold , As MELODIES . 109.
Page 116
... hand more calm and sage The leaf must fill . Thoughts come on as pure as light , Pure as even you require ; But oh ! each word I write , Love turns to fire . Yet let me keep the book ; Oft shall my heart renew , When on its leaves I ...
... hand more calm and sage The leaf must fill . Thoughts come on as pure as light , Pure as even you require ; But oh ! each word I write , Love turns to fire . Yet let me keep the book ; Oft shall my heart renew , When on its leaves I ...
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... hand to hand , taking a collar of gold from the neck of one , and carrying off the sword of the other , as tro- phies of his victory " -- Warners History of Ireland , Vol . I. Book 9 . 1 When her king with standard of green unfurl'd ...
... hand to hand , taking a collar of gold from the neck of one , and carrying off the sword of the other , as tro- phies of his victory " -- Warners History of Ireland , Vol . I. Book 9 . 1 When her king with standard of green unfurl'd ...
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Page 100 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled. — So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 243 - When night, with wings of starry gloom, O'ershadows all the earth and skies, Like some dark beauteous bird, whose plume Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes : That sacred gloom, those fires divine, So grand, so countless, Lord, are Thine.
Page 90 - They made her a grave too cold and damp For a soul so warm and true; And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, Where all night long, by a fire-fly lamp, She paddles her white canoe. "And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see And her paddle I soon shall hear; Long and loving our life shall be, And I'll hide the maid in a cypress tree, When the footstep of Death is near.
Page 77 - And oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Page 98 - Nature embellish'd the tint Of thy fields, and thy mountains so fair, Did she ever intend that a tyrant should print The footstep of slavery there? No! Freedom, whose smile we shall never resign, Go, tell our invaders, the Danes, That 'tis sweeter to bleed for an age at thy shrine, Than to sleep but a moment in chains.
Page 101 - OH ! BREATHE NOT HIS NAME. OH ! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, 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.
Page 83 - And a dew was distill'd from their flowers, that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, An essence that breathes of it many a year...
Page 259 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken...
Page 102 - With thee were the dreams of my earliest love ; Every thought of my reason was thine : In my last humble prayer to the Spirit above, Thy name shall be mingled with mine...
Page 174 - Let Fate do her worst ; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear.