 Seem'd worthless in thine own, Mary ! If souls could always dwell above, Thou ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or could we keep the souls we love. We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To live...  Melodies (Irish melodies, National melodies). - Page 88by Thomas Moore - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1825 - 374 pages
...ne'er hadst left thy sphere ; Or, could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary !33 By that Lake, whose gloomy shore.** Mr — The Brown Irish Girl. By that Lake, whose gloomy shore... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 310 pages
...ne'er had'st left thy sphere ; Or, could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here MARY ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, MARY !* . SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND. AIR — " Open the door." SHE is far from the land, where her young... | |
 | 1825 - 338 pages
...withjiecJar. OXBERJRY'8 DRAMATIC BIOGRAPHY. SATURDAY,- FEBRUARY 5, 1825. MEMOIR OF MIS" 0'NEII.X,. Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...with them is far less sweet Than to remember thee. MOORE. Tis love's own weakness, to prate of her beauty, But 1 have a remembrance in my sorrow ; A sense... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1825 - 504 pages
...above, Thou ne'er hadst left thy sphere, Or could we keep the souls we love We had not lost thee here ; Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To live with them if far less sweet Than to remember thee. The best of the Hebrew melodies are truly charming, — for... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...above, Thou ne'er haoUt left thy sphere, Or, could we keep the soul we love We bad not lost thee here ; Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To Im wiH (irm ii/ur lot rout rtarmker tkte. «* GO, AND SIN NO MORE."* Oh! woman, it" r>\ simple wile... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1827 - 426 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere; Or, could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To live with them is far lese sweet Than to remember thee, Mary!1 * I bar* twre mtde • feeble tfTort to ¡mini* tbit ечцтИ*... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...ne'er hadst left thy sphere ; Or could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary ! THE ARAB MAID. FLY to the desert, fly with me, Our Arab tents are rude for thee ; But oh ! the choice... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...Thou ne'er had'st left that sphere ;. Or could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here. Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...is far less sweet, Than to remember thee — Mary ! Moore. A SKETCH. I saw her in the morn of life — the summer of her years, Ere time had stole a... | |
 | Ireland - 1828 - 410 pages
...pathos of Moore's beautiful lines which are said to have been addressed to the memory of Mrs. H. Tighe : Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary. — You will not, I am certain, consider these remarks on the talents of Amy Grey, irrelevant to the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1828 - 232 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or, could we keep the souk we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, MARY ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...with them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, MART f * * I have here made a feeble effort to imitate that exquisite inscription of Shenstone's, "... | |
| |
