Thomas Moore Quotes

When Time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem'ry of the past will stay,
And half our joys renew.

And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,
It is this, it is this!

Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.

Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter!
Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!

Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Paradise itself were dim
And joyless, if not shared with him!

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.

But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

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

One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate.