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Thomas Moore. Pure charity , that comes not in a shower , Sudden , and loud , oppressing what it feeds ; But like the dew , with gradual , silent power , Felt in the bloom it leaves along the meads ; The happy , grateful spirit that ...
Thomas Moore. Pure charity , that comes not in a shower , Sudden , and loud , oppressing what it feeds ; But like the dew , with gradual , silent power , Felt in the bloom it leaves along the meads ; The happy , grateful spirit that ...
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... pure , and adorning in life , Is for high - thoughted spirits like thine to com- mand ? Oh ! no , never dream it — while good men des- pair Between tyrants and traitors , and timid men bow , Never think for an instant thy country can ...
... pure , and adorning in life , Is for high - thoughted spirits like thine to com- mand ? Oh ! no , never dream it — while good men des- pair Between tyrants and traitors , and timid men bow , Never think for an instant thy country can ...
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... pure and fresh as mine for thee , Fresh as the fountain under ground , When first ' tis by the lapwing found . * But if for me thou dost forsake Some other maid , and rudely break Her worship'd image from its base , To give to me the ...
... pure and fresh as mine for thee , Fresh as the fountain under ground , When first ' tis by the lapwing found . * But if for me thou dost forsake Some other maid , and rudely break Her worship'd image from its base , To give to me the ...
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Thomas Moore. No pearl ever lay , under OMAN's green water , More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee . Oh ! fair as the sea - flower close to thee growing , How light was thy heart till love's witchery came , Like the wind of the ...
Thomas Moore. No pearl ever lay , under OMAN's green water , More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee . Oh ! fair as the sea - flower close to thee growing , How light was thy heart till love's witchery came , Like the wind of the ...
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... pure , intellectual fire In luxury loses its heavenly ray ; How soon in the lavishing cup of desire , The pearl of the soul may be melted away ! And I pray'd of that Spirit who lighted the flame , That pleasure no more might its purity ...
... pure , intellectual fire In luxury loses its heavenly ray ; How soon in the lavishing cup of desire , The pearl of the soul may be melted away ! And I pray'd of that Spirit who lighted the flame , That pleasure no more might its purity ...
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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.