Thomas Moore Quotes

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!

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!

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

To live and die in scenes like this,
With some we 've left behind us.

I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.

Thus, when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted,
And looks around 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.

To live with them is far less sweet
Than to remember thee.

'T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove
We are sure to find something blissful and dear;
And that when we 're far from the lips we love,
We've but to make love to the lips we are near.

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

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

No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

Oh, weep for the hour
When to Eveleen's bower
The lord of the valley with false vows came.

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.