 Seem'd worthless in thine own, Mary ! If souls could always dwell above, Thou ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or could we keep the souls we love. We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To live...  Melodies (Irish melodies, National melodies). - Page 88by Thomas Moore - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or, could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary ! WHEN IN THE COLD EARTH. When cold in the earth lies the friend thou hast loved, Bo his faults and... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...in thy own , Mary ! If souls could always dwell above, Thou ne'er hadst left that sphere ; 246 217 Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary! I saw from the Beach. I saw from the beach, when the morning was shining, A bark o'er the waters moved... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 398 pages
...Though fairest forms we see, To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee, Mary ! * * I have here made a feeble effort to imitate that exquisite inscription of Shenstone's, " Heu I quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui memmisse ! " BY THAT LAKE, WHOSE GLOOMY SHORE.* BY... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest fgrms we see, To live with them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary ! THOSE EVENING BELLS. COME, YE DISCONSOLATE. Come, ye disconsolate, where'er you languish, Come, at... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart - 1854 - 532 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee, Mary ! land in 1818, and took up his abode with Ben Waters.* No man ever so looked the Contributor as the... | |
 | 1854 - 816 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or, could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er hnd lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet Than to remember thee, Mary ! " AH Deptford Inn, near Ilaytesbury. [The lines are Moore's, and are arranged, in his Irish 3Ielodia,... | |
 | John Wilson, James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart - 1854 - 522 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...is far less sweet, • Than to remember thee, Mary ! land in 1818, and took up his abode with Ben Waters.* No man ever so looked the Contributor as the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1854 - 184 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or eould we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Maryl Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest forms we see, To live with them Is far less sweet BY THAT LAKE WHOSE GLOOMY SHORE. s* Brthat Lake, whose gloomy shore Sky-lark never warhles o'er, s5... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1855 - 810 pages
...ne'er hadst left that sphere ; Or could we keep the souls we love, We ne'er had lost thee here, Mary ! Though many a gifted mind we meet, Though fairest...them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee, Mary ! * BY THAT LAKE, WHOSE GLOOMY SHOBB.1 BY that Lake, whose gloomy shore Sky-lark never warbles o'er,}... | |
 | Wife - 1855 - 350 pages
...suppose the lady should die ?" " He will still love her memory more than any other living creature ; ' to live with them is far less sweet than to remember thee.' "• " But if unworthy ?" persisted Constance. " Ah ! that is supposing an impossible case. My brother,"... | |
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