| 1840 - 378 σελίδες
...heart, my own dear mother, bends, ' With love's true instinct,- back to thee f DIAR HARP OP MT COUNTRY. DEAR harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee...o'er thee long, When proudly, my own island harp! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song! The warm lay of love and the light... | |
| 1840 - 368 σελίδες
...back to thee ! DEAR HARP or MY COONTRr. DEAR harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee ; The qold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own island harp! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song! The warm lay of love and the light... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1841 - 396 σελίδες
...Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. III. AA DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. DEAR Harp of my Country ! in darkness I found thee,...o'er thee long*, When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song! The warm lay of love and the light... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1842 - 470 σελίδες
...beautiful images to those exquisite lines of his, at the close of the fifth number of his Melodies : — " Dear harp of my country, in darkness I found thee,...The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long." In a note to that piece, whose numbers " most musical, most melancholy," would alone be sufficient... | |
| 1845 - 386 σελίδες
...thee, a glorified guest, To the home of thy mother, the Land of the Blest." DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. DEAR Harp of my Country ! in darkness I found thee...hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the... | |
| Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 σελίδες
...and of the flowers of genius still blooming amid the gloom of her distress. Well may he sing — " Dear harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee...hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom and song !" ROGERS. SUCH a quiet attribute... | |
| Henry Riddell Montgomery - 1846 - 242 σελίδες
...The reader will recollect Moore's beautiful allusion to this custom:— " Dear harp of my country 1 in darkness I found thee. The cold chain of silence...o'er thee long. When proudly, my own island harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song." t Walker-1 Hist. Menu., p. 44.... | |
| Archibald M'Sparran - 1846 - 252 σελίδες
...the public. ARCHIBALD M'SPARRAN. July 1st, 1846. Dear harp of my country in darkness I found then, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly my own Island harp I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to wild freedom and song : The warm notes of love, and the... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1849 - 208 σελίδες
...Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. DEAE Harp of my Country ! in darkness I found thee, The...o'er thee long, * When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1849 - 822 σελίδες
...fair ! Every drop we sprinkle O'er the brow of Care Smooths away a wrinkle. DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. DEAR Harp of my Country ! in darkness I found thee,...The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, i When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and... | |
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