Thomas Moore Quotes

My only books
Were woman's looks,
And folly's all they've taught me.

The tribute most high to a head that is royal,
Is love from a heart that loves liberty too.

The light that lies
In woman's eyes,
Has been my heart's undoing.

Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.

Patience lingers o'er the weedy shore,
And, mutely waiting till the storm be o'er,
Turns to young Hope, who still directs his eye
To some blue spot, just breaking in the sky!

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

If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

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

As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path advances,
May that side the sun's upon
Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,—
One minute of heaven is worth them all.

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.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

To sigh, yet feel no pain;
To weep, yet scarce know why;
To sport an hour with Beauty's chain,
Then throw it idly by.