Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOOREBastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOORECame but for friendship, and took away love.
THOMAS MOOREFrom plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
THOMAS MOOREIt is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOOREA pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
THOMAS MOOREAll that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
THOMAS MOOREAsk a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
THOMAS MOOREThis wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
THOMAS MOOREHumility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOOREHere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MOOREWhile mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOOREFond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MOOREMy only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
THOMAS MOOREWhat though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOOREThough an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOOREDisguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
THOMAS MOORE