Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
THOMAS MOORELike ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
THOMAS MOORENo, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
THOMAS MOOREAnd soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
THOMAS MOOREThe light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
THOMAS MOOREThis wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
THOMAS MOOREThough an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOORERomantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
THOMAS MOOREA friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
THOMAS MOOREAnd the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
THOMAS MOOREHumility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOOREA pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
THOMAS MOOREHere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MOORECame but for friendship, and took away love.
THOMAS MOOREDisguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
THOMAS MOOREThe heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
THOMAS MOOREBastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOORE