Irish MelodiesCollin's Clear-Type Press, 1849 - 184 páginas |
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Página xiv
... turn for authorship , I was naturally eager to become a contributor to those patriotic and popular columns . But the constant anxiety about me which I knew my own family felt , a feeling more wakeful far than even their zeal in the ...
... turn for authorship , I was naturally eager to become a contributor to those patriotic and popular columns . But the constant anxiety about me which I knew my own family felt , a feeling more wakeful far than even their zeal in the ...
Página xx
... turn came , and I stood in presence of the formidable tribunal . There sate , with severe look , the vice - chancellor , and , by his side , the memorable Doctor Duigenan , — memorable for his eternal pam- phlets against the Catholics ...
... turn came , and I stood in presence of the formidable tribunal . There sate , with severe look , the vice - chancellor , and , by his side , the memorable Doctor Duigenan , — memorable for his eternal pam- phlets against the Catholics ...
Página xxv
... turn to come . I found that to amuse his solitude he had made a large drawing with charcoal on the wall of his prison , representing that fancied origin of the Irish Harp which , some years after , I adopted as the subject of one of the ...
... turn to come . I found that to amuse his solitude he had made a large drawing with charcoal on the wall of his prison , representing that fancied origin of the Irish Harp which , some years after , I adopted as the subject of one of the ...
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... turn to a tear ! The thread of our life would be dark , Heaven knows ! If it were not with friendship and love intertwin'd ; And I care not how soon I may sink to repose , When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my But they who ...
... turn to a tear ! The thread of our life would be dark , Heaven knows ! If it were not with friendship and love intertwin'd ; And I care not how soon I may sink to repose , When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my But they who ...
Página 14
... turns to fire . Yet let me keep the book : Oft shall my heart renew , When on its leaves I look , Dear thoughts of you . Like you , ' tis fair and bright ; Like you , too bright and fair To let wild passion write One wrong wish there ...
... turns to fire . Yet let me keep the book : Oft shall my heart renew , When on its leaves I look , Dear thoughts of you . Like you , ' tis fair and bright ; Like you , too bright and fair To let wild passion write One wrong wish there ...
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Página 81 - Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song...
Página 47 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing : But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Página 12 - There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart. Yet it was not that nature had shed o'er the scene Her purest of crystal and brightest of green; 'twas not her soft magic of streamlet or hill, Oh!
Página 86 - Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now...
Página 11 - THE MEETING OF THE WATERS. THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Página 31 - And thus, I thought, our fortunes run, For many a lover looks to thee, While oh! I feel there is but one, One Mary in the world for me.
Página 48 - He had lived for his love, for his country he died, They were all that to life had entwined him, Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him.
Página 6 - Yes, weep, and however my foes may condemn, Thy tears shall efface their decree; For Heaven can witness, though guilty to them, I have been but too faithful to thee. With thee were the dreams of my earliest love ; Every thought of my reason was thine: In my last humble prayer to the Spirit above Thy name shall be mingled with mine!
Página 68 - I've yet to roam : — The mind that burns within me, And pure smiles from thee at home. Thus when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks round in fear and doubt. But soon, the prospect clearing, By cloudless starlight on he treads, And thinks no lamp so cheering As that light which Heaven sheds.
Página 104 - How sweet the answer Echo makes To Music at night When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away o'er lawns and lakes Goes answering light ! Yet Love hath echoes truer far And far more sweet Than e'er, beneath the moonlight's star, Of horn or lute or soft guitar The songs repeat. 'Tis when the sigh, — in youth sincere And only then, The sigh that 's breathed for one to hear— Is by that one, that only Dear Breathed back again.