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“When Time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem'ry of the past will stay,
And half our joys renew.”

Song, from Juvenile Poems.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“When twilight dews are falling soft
Upon the rosy sea, love,
I watch the star whose beam so oft
Has lighted me to thee, love.”

When Twilight Dews.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”

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

“Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow,
I 'll taste the luxury of woe.”

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

“Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells
Of youth and home, and that sweet time
When last I heard their soothing chime!”

Those evening Bells.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”

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

“The moon looks
On many brooks,
"The brook can see no moon but this."”

While gazing on the Moon's Light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate.”

Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part IV: Paradise and the Peri

“When thus the heart is in a vein
Of tender thought, the simplest strain
Can touch it with peculiar power.”

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

“Like a young eagle who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart
Which rank corruption destines for their heart.”

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

“Oh stay! oh stay!
Joy so seldom weaves a chain
Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain
To break its links so soon.”

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

“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

Remember Thee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Go where glory waits thee,
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me!”

Go Where Glory Waits Thee, st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!”

The Young May Moon, st. 1. <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“Love, nursed among pleasures, is faithless as they,
But the love born of Sorrow, like Sorrow, is true.”

In the morning of life, when its cares are unknown, st. 2 <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“Accurst is the march of that glory
Which treads o'er the hearts of the free.”

Forget not the field where they perish'd, st. 4 <br class="br"> Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“A Persian's heaven is easily made:
'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.”

Intercepted Letters; or The Two-Penny Post Bag, VI (1813).

“As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”

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

“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”

Thomas Moore book Lalla Rookh

Part VI http://books.google.com/books?id=HtQMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22it+is+only+to+the+happy+that+tears+are+a+luxury%22&pg=PA124#v=onepage. <br class="br"> Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers

“Oh for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!”

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