Thomas Moore: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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.”

Thomas Moore

The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Music , Feeling , Soul , Sleep

“But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.”

Thomas Moore

Part II.
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part I-III: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan

Faith , Wedding

“There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”

Thomas Moore

Little Man and Little Soul.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Soul

“As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path advances,
May that side the sun's upon
Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!”

Thomas Moore

Peace be around Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Sun

“Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”

Thomas Moore

On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Fight

“Thus, when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted,
And looks around in fear and doubt.
But soon, the prospect clearing,
By cloudless starlight on he treads,
And thinks no lamp so cheering
As that light which Heaven sheds.”

Thomas Moore

I'd mourn the Hopes.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Fear , Travel , Feeling , Thinking

“Where bastard Freedom waves
The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”

Thomas Moore

To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Freedom

“The light that lies
In woman's eyes,
Has been my heart's undoing.”

Thomas Moore

The Time I've Lost in Wooing, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Light , Heart

“Believe me, if all those endearing young 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.
Thou wouldst still be adored 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.”

Thomas Moore

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Art , Change , Heart

“"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at
your time of life,
There's no longer excuse for thus
playing the rake--
It is time you should think, boy, of
taking a wife."
"Why, so it is father--whose wife
shall I take?"”

Thomas Moore

A Joke Versified http://books.google.com/books?id=ENdgFkCgU3gC&pg=PA486&q=%22a+joke+versified%22#v=onepage

Life , Boy , Thinking , Time

“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.”

Thomas Moore

Sacred Songs, Sound the Loud Timbrel, st. 1.

People , Sea

“Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.”

Thomas Moore

The Fudges in England, Letter iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Angels

“I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.”

Thomas Moore Come

Come, rest in this Bosom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love , Art , Heart

“Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins,
That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war,
Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.”

Thomas Moore

On the Entry of the Austrians into Naples (1821).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

War

“Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.”

Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers

Feeling , Hell

“Oh, weep for the hour
When to Eveleen's bower
The lord of the valley with false vows came.”

Thomas Moore

Eveleen's Bower.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Falseness

“To live and die in scenes like this,
With some we 've left behind us.”

Thomas Moore

As slow our Ship.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I feel like one,
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed!”

Thomas Moore

Oft in the Stilly Night, st. 2 (1815).

Feeling , Light , Dead

“No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.”

Thomas Moore

Come O'er the Sea, st. 2.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”

Thomas Moore

Ill Omens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Heart