Thomas Moore: Eye

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“Fly not yet; 't is just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.”

Thomas Moore

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

Love , Pleasure , Flowers , Light

“Man for his glory
To ancestry flies;
But Woman's bright story
Is told in her eyes.”

Thomas Moore

Desmond's Song, st. 4
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)

“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

“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)

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

Thomas Moore

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

“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

“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

“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

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

Thomas Moore

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

“Eyes of unholy blue.”

Thomas Moore

By That Lake Whose Gloomy Shore, st. 2.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)