 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 σελίδες
...to sever ; Poor Wisdom's chance Against a glance Is now as weak as ever. 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... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1880 - 284 σελίδες
...that's left behind us. DEAK HARP OF MY COUNTRY. Dear Harp of my Country! in darkness I found thec, 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 light, freedom, and song ! The warm lay of love and the... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 σελίδες
...found thec, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thce lon,:, 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 note of gladness Have waken'd thy fondest, Ihy liveliest thrill;... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 σελίδες
...letters. He boasted, with no more gaiety than truth, that he originated modern Irish poetry : — ' 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 so:>g." He might have applied these words... | |
 | English poets - 1889 - 596 σελίδες
...darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day ! DEAR IiARP OF MY COUNTRY. DEAR Harp of uiy country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain...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... | |
 | Alfred Mason Williams - 1881 - 470 σελίδες
...brave and free, And never shall sound in slavery." DEAR HARP OF MY COUNTRY. AIR. — New Langolee. DEAR Harp of my Country ! in darkness I found thee,...The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, The warm lay of love and the light note of gladness Have wakened thy fondest, thy loveliest thrill... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 σελίδες
...with no more gaiety than truth, that he oiiginated modern Irish poetry:— 'Dear Harp of my Country I in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thtc long. When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 σελίδες
...found thee, 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 light, freedom and song.' In the sense that the silence was broken by the voice of a true poet, whose lips were touched by the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 838 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,1 When proudly, my own Island Harp, I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom,... | |
 | Thomas Costley - 1897 - 404 σελίδες
...exquisite. How beautifully he expressed the former in the following lines : — " Dear harp of our country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain...hung o'er thee long. When proudly, my own Island harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song I The warm lay of love and the... | |
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DEAR Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, 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 light, freedom, and song... 
