Thomas Moore: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter!
Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.”

Thomas Moore

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

Daughters , Sea

“Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit,
But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”

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
Variant: But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

“This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future,—two eternities!”

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

Past , Future , Sea

“Ask a woman's advice, and, whate'er she advise,
Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.”

Thomas Moore

How To Make a Good Politician.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.”

Thomas Moore

Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.”

Thomas Moore

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

Books

“But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.”

Thomas Moore

Love's Young Dream', st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

For Him , Love , Life , Dreams

“Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.”

Thomas Moore

A Canadian Boat-Song.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Past

“How shall we rank thee upon glory's page,
Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?”

Thomas Moore

To Thomas Hume.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.”

Thomas Moore

Poems Relating to America. A Canadian Boat Song, st. 1.

Time

“Tis the last rose of Summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.”

Thomas Moore The Last Rose of Summer

The Last Rose of Summer, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Love , Summer

“As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see,
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion,
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee.

As still to the star of its worship, though clouded,
The needle points faithfully o'er the dim sea,
So dark when I roam in this wintry world shrouded,
The hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.”

Thomas Moore

The Heart's Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Hope , Soul , Star

“There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream,
And the nightingale sings round it all the day long;
In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream,
To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.”

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

Dreams , Bird , Singing , Time

“To sigh, yet feel no pain;
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.”

Thomas Moore

The Blue Stocking.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Pain , Beauty , Feeling , Sport

“When did morning ever break,
And find such beaming eyes awake?”

Thomas Moore

Fly not yet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“If I speak to thee in friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
If I mention love's devoted flame,
Thou say'st I speak too boldly.”

Thomas Moore

How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love , Friendship

“No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.”

Thomas Moore

Believe me, if all those endearing young Charms.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.

Love , God , Flowers , Sun

“T is sweet to think that where'er we rove
We are sure to find something blissful and dear;
And that when we 're far from the lips we love,
We've but to make love to the lips we are near.”

Thomas Moore

'T is sweet to think.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love , Making love , Thinking

“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.”

Thomas Moore

The Meeting of the Waters.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Water

“The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of death you'll find him;
His father's sword he has girded on,
And his wild harp slung behind him.”

Thomas Moore

The Minstrel Boy, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Death , War , Boy