Thomas Moore: Trending quotes (page 4)

“I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd
Above the green elms, that a cottage was near;
And I said, "If there's peace to be found in the world,
A heart that was humble might hope for it here."”

Thomas Moore

Ballad Stanzas.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Peace , Hope , Heart

“The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.”

Thomas Moore

Oh that I had Wings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Way , Home , Bird , Light

“I give thee all,—I can no more,
Though poor the off'ring be;
My heart and lute are all the store
That I can bring to thee.”

Thomas Moore

My Heart and Lute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Heart

“Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”

Thomas Moore

The Loves of the Angels, The Third Angel's Story.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.”

Thomas Moore

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

Sea

“The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.”

Thomas Moore

Preface to Corruption and Intolerance.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Light

“Oft, in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimm'd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken!”

Thomas Moore

National Airs, Oft in the Stilly Night http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song04_lyrics.html, st. 1 (1815).

Love , Smile , Tear , Light

“Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.”

Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part IX: The Light of the Harem

Love , World , Light , Heart

“Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips.”

Thomas Moore

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

Sea , Dead

“To Greece we give our shining blades.”

Thomas Moore

Evenings in Greece, First Evening.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“All that's bright must fade,—
The brightest and the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made,
But to be lost when sweetest.”

Thomas Moore

"All that's Bright Must Fade" (Indian Air), National Airs (1823).

“What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.”

Thomas Moore

National Airs, Spring and Autumn, st. 1 (1815).

Love , Youth , Age , Wine

“Who ran
Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.”

Thomas Moore

On the Death of Sheridan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Life is a waste of wearisome hours
Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns;
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers,
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

Thomas Moore

O! think not my spirits are always as light, st. 1
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

Life , Flowers , Heart

“This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.”

Thomas Moore

This World is all a fleeting Show.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

World , Smile , Tear , Joy

“To live with them is far less sweet
Than to remember thee.”

Thomas Moore

I saw thy Form.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Oh, call it by some better name,
For friendship sounds too cold.”

Thomas Moore

Ballads and Songs. Oh, Call It by Some Better Name, st. 1.

Friendship

“Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,
I 've seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But 't was the first to fade away.
I never nurs'd a dear gazelle,
To glad me with its soft black eye,
But when it came to know me well
And love me, it was sure to die.”

Thomas Moore

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

Love , Hope , Flowers , Tree

“And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,
It is this, it is this!”

Thomas Moore

Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part IX: The Light of the Harem

“Who has not felt how sadly sweet
The dream of home, the dream of home,
Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet,
When far o'er sea or land we roam?”

Thomas Moore

The Dream of Home.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Dreams , Home , Heart , Sea