 | Thomas Moore - Ireland - 1879 - 252 pages
...have slept ; Kindling former smiles again In faded eyes that long have wept. Like the gale that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers, Is the grateful breath...sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath. 1 " Where the spirit of the Lord is, thera is liberty. " — SI... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston - English poetry - 1900 - 640 pages
...Beds of Oriental flowers Is the grateful breath of song That once was heard in happier hours ; FilFd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have...sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath Music ! oh how faint, how weak Language fades before thy spell !... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston - English poetry - 1900 - 634 pages
...have slept, Kindling former smiles again In faded eyes that long have wept. Like the gale that sighs along Beds of Oriental flowers Is the grateful breath of song That once was heard in happier hours ; FilPd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream... | |
 | Helen Philbrook Patten - English poetry - 1905 - 344 pages
...have slept, Kindling former smiles again In faded eyes that long have wept. Like the gale that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers, Is the grateful breath...sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in Music's breath. Music, oh, how faint, how weak, Language fades before thy spell!... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...have slept; Kindling former smiles again In faded eyes that long have wept. Like the gale, that sighs along Beds of Oriental flowers, Is the grateful breath of song, That once was heard in happier hours; Filled with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death; So, when pleasure's dream... | |
 | Frank Vigor Morley - 1924 - 226 pages
...not his friends lament his lot Mors Omnibus communis.' Then Moore himself: ' Like the gale that sighs along Beds of Oriental flowers Is the grateful breath of song That once was heard in happier hours. FilPd with balm, the gale sighs on Though the flowers have sunk in death, So when pleasure's dream... | |
 | 1904 - 672 pages
...here to those other lines, "On Music," with their tawdry ornamentalism : "Like the gale that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers Is the grateful breath of song That once was heard in happier hours." Still more remote from Moore is George Darley. a poet of genius, of a powerful and extraordinary imagination,... | |
 | Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1852 - 434 pages
...that lighs along Beds of oriental flower*, Ii the grateful breath of tonir, Heard in happy, joyful hours. Fill'd with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; But, when Pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory lives in music's breath. And when we have the reality,... | |
 | 1922 - 642 pages
...it " sighs along beds of oriental flowers "; and it is a melancholy, but yet sweet, truth : " Filled with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death." My reverend godfather raised his head and began : " On a Sunday morning, if you are going to serve... | |
 | 1864 - 706 pages
...father's hand, although I have heard Ole Bull and other fine violinists since." " Like the gale that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers, Is the grateful breath of song That once we heard in happier hours. Filled with balm the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death,... | |
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Like the gale, that sighs along Beds of oriental flowers, Is the grateful breath of song, That once was heard in happier hours ; Fill'd with balm, the gale sighs on, Though the flowers have sunk in death ; So, when pleasure's dream is gone, Its memory... 
