And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
-- Oh think not my Spirits are always as light
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
-- Oh think not my Spirits are always as light
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- When thus the heart is in a vein
Of tender thought,
the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power... - And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,
It is this,
it is this! -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Light... - Thus, when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear... - Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!
From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins... - I give thee all,--I can no more,
Though poor the off'ring be;
My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring... - When did morning ever break,
And find such beaming eyes awake?
Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Fly not... - What good is it to me, after all, if there is an authority always busy
to see to the tranquil enjoyment of my pleasures and going ahead to
brush all dangers away from my path without giving me even the trouble
to think about it,
if that authority, which protects me from the smallest... - Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
I am thankful thorns have roses. -- Alphonse Karr... - My darling wife was always glum.
I drowned her in a cask of rum,
And so made sure that she would stay In better spirits...
