Dear Harp of my Country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness... Melodies (Irish melodies, National melodies). - Page 158by Thomas Moore - 1821Full view - About this book
| Richard Rhodes - American poetry - 1887 - 426 pages
...Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song'. The -warm lay of love,and the light note of gladness, Have waken'd thy fondest,...oft hast thou echod the deep sigh of sadness, That e'en in thy mirth it will steal from thee still Dear Harp of my Country! farewell to thy numbers, This... | |
| Thomas Moore - Ballads, Irish - 1887 - 264 pages
...thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill ; But so oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness, That even in thy mirth it will steal from thee . still. Dear Harp of my Country 1 farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine. Go, sleep with the... | |
| Alphonse Leclaire - Canada - 1888 - 874 pages
...thrill; But su oft hast thou echoedthe deep sigh of sadness That e'en in thy mirth it will steal front thee still. " Dear Harp of my country ! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet tereath of sang รน the last we shall twine, Go-tUep leith the swuhinc of fame on thy shunbers, Les... | |
| Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 pages
...proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness...fondest, thy liveliest thrill ; But so oft hast thou ecl.o'd the deep sigh of sadness, That e'en in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear Harp of... | |
| David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...When proudly, my own Island Harp! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness...oft hast thou echo'd the deep sigh of sadness, That even in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear Harp of my country! farewell to thy numbers,... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness...fondest, thy liveliest thrill ; But, so oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness, That ev'n in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear Harp of... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, Ireedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness...waken'd thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill ; But, so oft bast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness. That ev'n in thy mirth it will steal from thee still. Dear... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The wann lay of love and the light note of gladness Have waken'd thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill; Bnt, so oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness. That ev'n in thy mirth it will steal from thee... | |
| Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1895 - 838 pages
...proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness Have wakened thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill ; But, so oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness,... | |
| Thomas Costley - English literature - 1897 - 378 pages
...proudly, my own Island harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness Have wakened thy fondest, thy liveliest thrill ; But so oft hast thou echoed the deep sigh of sadness, That... | |
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