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" Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. "
Melodies (Irish melodies, National melodies). - Page 48
by Thomas Moore - 1821
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The Strand Magazine, Volume 15

Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1898 - 878 pages
...With dramatic emphasis he carolled out, in his baby voice :-• ' 1 HAVE A SONG TO SING YOU. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze...to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms Like fairy gifts failing away — Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness...
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Echoes of Life Or, Beautiful Gems of Poetry and Song: A Choice Collection of ...

Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...132 133 Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms. HELIEVE me, if all those endearing young L) charms Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away, [art, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou Ltt thy loveliness...
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Playwrights for Tomorrow: A Collection of Plays, Volume 12

Arthur Harold Ballet - American drama - 1969 - 276 pages
...Kevin and other Act Two characters on a picnic, playing Frisbee, smoking dope, or whatever.) Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow (Frank, now dressed in a tuxedo and his Howdy Doody mask, descends the stairs with his flashlight and...
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Playwrights for Tomorrow, Volume 12

Ballet - Fiction - 1966 - 282 pages
...Kevin and other Act Two characters on a picnic, playing Frisbee, smoking dope, or whatever. ) Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow (Frank, now dressed in a tuxedo and his Howdy Doody mask, descends the stairs with his flashlight and...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 5

England - 1819 - 788 pages
...say one word. The wit in the last line is perhaps as good as possihle. Song.— By TM Etq. I. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze...fleet in my arms Like fairy-gifts, fading away ! Thou wonlil'st still be ador'd, as this moment thou art, I.ct thy loveliness fade as it will. And around...
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Faith Healer: A Drama

Brian Friel - Drama - 1980 - 76 pages
...like, as if she done it every day of the week, she stood up and she sang an Irish song called "Believe me if all those endearing young charms/ Which I gaze on so fondly today" — Christ, I don't mean that's the title; that's the whole first verse for Christ's sake. I'd heard...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...1—4) ACP; AnIL; FaBoBe; FaFP; GN; Prim Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms 1 Believe d. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all...gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite. In the 3 No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets. But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...hearing saves. MOOREThomas 1779-1852 7851 'Believe me, if all those endearing young charms' Believe ot better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis...the tangles of Neaera's hair? 7529 'Lycidas' Fame is fairy gifts fading away! Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thouart. 7852 'Believe me, if...
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Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...(1779-1852) vowed that he would continue to be enchanted even if his lady's charms departed. (70) Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze...so fondly to-day. Were to change by to-morrow and flee in my arms. Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,...
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England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic ...

James Chandler - History - 1999 - 616 pages
...your feet gladly threw. (11. 1 7- 24)* Readers of the immensely popular Irish Melodies — "Believe me if all those endearing young charms / Which I gaze on so fondly today . . . " — would undoubtedly have recognized in the precious diction and the anapestic cadences of...
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