Thomas Moore

Poet and songwriter, 1779-1852

Cited as Moore. — 19 quotations

Delve

The very tigers from their delves Look out.

Disconsolate

One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.

Grace

The Graces love to weave the rose.

Heartstring

Sobbing, as if a heartstring broke.

Inhabit

O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

Job

Authors of all work, to job for the season.

Mooring

And the tossed bark in moorings swings.

Rapid

Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.

Shriek

She shrieked his name To the dark woods.

Spellwork

Like those Peri isles of light That hang by spellwork in the air.

Statesman

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.

Still

As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still.

Stilly

The stilly hour when storms are gone.

Surfy

Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves That foam around those frightful caves.

Take

I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.

Under

The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under.

Wilderment

And snatched her breathless from beneath This wilderment of wreck and death.

Wing

There's not an arrow wings the sky But fancy turns its point to him.

Yankee-Doodle

We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles.