Ballad Stanzas.
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Thomas Moore: Frasi in inglese
Oh that I had Wings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
My Heart and Lute.
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“Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
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.”
The Origin of the Harp.
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Preface to Corruption and Intolerance.
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National Airs, Oft in the Stilly Night http://www.james-joyce-music.com/song04_lyrics.html, st. 1 (1815).
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part IX: The Light of the Harem
“Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips.”
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“To Greece we give our shining blades.”
Evenings in Greece, First Evening.
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"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.”
National Airs, Spring and Autumn, st. 1 (1815).
“Who ran
Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.”
On the Death of Sheridan.
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O! think not my spirits are always as light, st. 1
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
This World is all a fleeting Show.
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“To live with them is far less sweet
Than to remember thee.”
I saw thy Form.
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“Oh, call it by some better name,
For friendship sounds too cold.”
Ballads and Songs. Oh, Call It by Some Better Name, st. 1.
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,
It is this, it is this!”
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part IX: The Light of the Harem
The Dream of Home.
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Song, from Juvenile Poems.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
When Twilight Dews.
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“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
On the Death of Sheridan.
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“Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow,
I 'll taste the luxury of woe.”
Anacreontic.
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Those evening Bells.
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“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.
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“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
Evenings in Greece, First Evening.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Corruption.
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