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34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moore wrote to Power,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From 1811, the year of his marriage, to 1852, that of his death, this excellent and beautiful person received from him the homage of a lover enhanced by all the gratitude, all the confidence, which the daily and hourly happiness he enjoyed were sure to inspire. Thus, whatever am... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She wore a turban that night to please me, and she looks better in it than anything else; for it strikes almost everybody that sees her, how like the form and expression of her face are to Catalani's, and a turban is the thing for that sort of character."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You would have laughed to see Bessy and me going to dinner, he writes to his mother."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We found in the middle of our walk, that we were near half an hour too early, so we set to practising country dances in the middle of a retired green l... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never was anything more unlucky for me than Byron's invasion of this region, which, when I entered it, was yet untrodden, and whose chief charm consisted in the gloss and novelty of its features; but it will now be overrun with clumsy adventurers, and, when I make my appearance,... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Brown the younger. But the authorship was never for a moment in doubt, as many of the squibs reprinted had been correctly assigned on their first appearance in the _Chronicle_; and Moore showed his certitude that the disguise would be only formal by inserting, in the dedi... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the charge of being an Irishman, poor Mr. Brown pleads guilty; and I believe it must also be acknowledged that he comes of a Roman Catholic family.... But from all this it does not necessarily follow that Mr. Brown is a Papist; and indeed I have the strongest reasons for susp... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the heretic girl of my soul shall I fly To find somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "there is no reason to suppose that Moore ever meditated a change of religion. Later in life, his sister Katherine did so, and he advised her to fo... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That awful hour or two Of grave tonsorial preparation, Which, to a fond, admiring nation, Sends forth, announced by trump and drum, The best-wigg'd P----e in Christendom!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Anacreontic to a Plumassier is a very delicate piece of verse, fl... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When first I met thee, warm and young, There shone such truth about thee, And on thy lip such promise hung, I did not dare to doubt thee. I saw thee change, yet still relied, Still clung with hope the fonder, And thought, though false to all beside, From me thou couldst not wand... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Harp of my Country! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and she pressed on him warnings against the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Irish democrats."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there is anything in the world that I have been detesting and despising more than another for this long time past, it has bee... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reprobate as I am, I am sure you will give credit to my prudence and good taste in declining the grand public dinner that was about to be given me upon my arrival in Dublin. I found there were, too many of your favourites, the Catholic orators, at the bottom of the design--that ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At a time when the Inquisition is re-established by our 'beloved Ferdinand'; when the Pope again brandishes the keys of St. Peter with an air worthy of the successor of the Hildebrands and Perettis; when canonisation is about to be inflicted on another Louis, and little silver m... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "St. Justin, the Martyr, is usually considered as the well-spring of most of those strange errors which flowed so abundantly through the early ages of the Church, and spread around them in their course with such luxuriance of absurdity. The most amiable, and therefore the least c... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That, said Longman,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On this basis they treated, and Longman was inclined to stipulate for a preliminary perusal. Moore, however, refused, and the agreement was finally worded:--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That upon you... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A heavy blow had also fallen upon him, as the retrenchments then proceeding had occasioned John Moore's removal from the barrack-mastership in Dublin, with a consequent reduction of his income from £350 to £200. But the publication of _Lalla Rookh_ set all right for the moment. ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sloperton, Devizes,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Miss Edgeworth called it, famous in those days for its hospitality to men and women of letters. Altogether the neighbourhood was as pleasant as could be found, but at first Bessy Moore was uncomfortable in it. She wanted"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lansdown... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps it is very unpardonable in me to say this; but upon my honour, I would not _make_ you the offer, if I did not feel that I would _accept_ it without scruple from you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very poor, Lord Tavistock wrote,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As to your political opinions, it was very fine to indulge in them and act up to them while there was a distant perspective in so doing of fame or emolument, and at the same time a feeling that the triumph of such opinions, and the success of the party you belonged to, might be ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are so truly, by birth, a poetical animal, out of the pale of book-associations and a free inhabitant of the most Elysian parts of nature, that the more you resolved to speak and to feel out of the sincerity of your own impulses, without thinking it necessary to search for i... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hundreds of banners to the sunbeam spread Waved, like the wings of the white birds that fan The flying throne of star-taught Soliman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; how she tried first the patriot hero's life-blood--(shed in vain); then the last sigh of the maiden ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might! May life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treacheries to the brim,-- With hopes, that but allure to fly, With joys, that... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh I to see it at sunset,--when warm o'er the Lake Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws, Like a bride, full of blushes, when ling'ring to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes!-- When the shrines through the foliage are gleaming half-shown, And each hallow... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was not the beauty--_oh, nothing like this!_ That to young Nourmahal gave such magic of bliss."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Italy."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a sad disappointment, Moore writes,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and saw a deal of society, English and French, with potentates in plenty. But it did not console him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no one here that I care one pin for,... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and when, in October, the household returned to its home in the Allée des Veuves, and Moore and his wife dined at home with the little ones for the first time since the beginning of July,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bessy said in going to bed, 'This is the first... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This day ten years we were married, and though Time has made his usual changes in us both, we are still more like lovers than any married couple of the same standing I am acquainted with."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The work went quickly, a thousand lines were completed within two months; and in November, when the poet's friends in Paris mustered to give him a farewell dinner, allusion was made to the new poem as all but ready to appear. I... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That juice of earth, the bane And blessing of man's heart and brain."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That amorous spirit, bound By beauty's spell, where'er 'twas found,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From loving much, Too easy lapse, to loving wrong,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love, though unto earth so prone, Delights to take Religion's wing When time or grief hath stained his own. How near to Love's beguiling brink Too oft entranced Religion lies! While Music, Music is the link They _both_ still hold by to the skies."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All this they bear, but, not the less, Have moments rich in happiness-- Blest meetings, after many a day Of widowhood passed far away, When the loved face again is seen Close, close, with not a tear between-- Confidings frank, without control, Pour'd mutually from soul to soul; ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hell's everlasting element,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Introductory Rhymes,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Herodotus wrote most in bed, And Richerand, a French physician, Declares the clockwork of the head Goes best in that reclined position."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some Mrs. Hopkins, taking tea And toast upon the wall of China."
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Torch of Liberty"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I saw th' expectant nations stand, To catch the coming flame in turn;-- I saw, from ready hand to hand, The clear, though struggling, glory burn."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would I suffer what--ev'n in the heart that thou hast-- All mean as it is--must have consciously burn'd, When the pittance, which shame had wrung from thee at last, And which found all his wants at an end, was return'd."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Moore was to... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gods! when I gaze upon that brim, So redolent of Church all over, What swarms of Tithes, in vision dim,-- Some pig-tail'd, some like cherubim, With ducklings' wings--around it hover! Tenths of all dead and living things, That Nature into being brings, From calves and corn to chi... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy times! he notes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Further south, alarming rumours began to come in, telling of secret organisation among the peasantry, and of the ascendency of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Rock,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My unlucky countrymen, says Captain Rock (for the Captain was the nominal author of his own Memoirs)"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our Irish rulers have always proceeded in proselytism on the principle of a wedge with its wrong side foremost.... The courteous addres... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have some thoughts of undertaking a very voluminous work about Ireland (if properly encouraged by _patres nostri_--the Longmans), and this will require my residence for at least two or three years in or near Dublin."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord Byron's dearest friend, his sister, Augusta Leigh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This, he said, was to treat it as if it were a pest-bag, whereas,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those who were eager for suppression appear to have been influenced by the desire to avoid scandal; and the notion was widespread, for Moore, after the affair, was congratulated on having"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fame of this sort is very marketable, and to-day would bring its owner big offers from the popular magazines. Their equivalent in those days was found in the annuals of the type of the _Forget-me-not_, _Souvenir_, etc.; and request after request was made to Moore for his name ei... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This morbid shrinking from actual physical impressions of pain or horror was a marked trait of the man, and not a manly one; it was doubtless closely connected with his temperamental liability to uncontrollable bursts of emotion. Nevertheless it was a thing hardly more within hi... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--and by the end of 1829 the first of two quarto volumes was ready for publication. In his prefatory note to the second volume, which shortly followed, Moore--whom Byron called"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The young Catullus of his day, As sweet, but as immoral, in his lay,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can none remember that eventful day, That ever glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little's leadless pistol met the eye, And Bow Street's myrmidons stood laughing by?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to his own public statement, published in the _Times_ concerning the du... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is now useless to speak of the steps with which it was my intention to follow up that letter. The time which has elapsed since then, though it has done away neither the injury nor the feeling of it, has in many respects materially altered my situation; and the only object whi... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With that water, as this wine, The libation I would pour Should be--peace with thine and mine And a health to thee, Tom Moore."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have now done with the subject, nor shall be easily tempted into a recurrence. Any mistakes or misstatements I may be proved to have made shall be corrected;--any new facts which it is in the power of others to produce will speak for themselves. To mere opinions I am not calle... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They take you for a Catholic."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I answered, Moore writes,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our conversation naturally turned upon religion, and my sister Kate, who, the last time I saw her, was more than half inclined to declare herself a Protestant, told me she had since taken my advice, and remained quietly a Catholic.... For myself, my having married a Protestant w... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I sat up to read the account of Goethe's _Dr. Faustus_ in the _Edinburgh Magazine_, and before I went to bed experienced one of those bursts of devotion which perhaps are worth all the churchgoing forms in the world. Tears came fast from me as I knelt down to adore the one only ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My views concerning the superiority of the Roman Catholic Religion over the Protestant in point of antiquity, authority, and consistency agree with those of my hero, and I was induced to put them so strongly upon record from the disgust which I feel, and have ever felt, at the a... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His attainments in this branch of learning were considerable for a layman. We have seen that in 1814 he surprised Jeffrey by his article for the _Edinburgh_ on the Fathers of the Early Church; and in 1831, while the _Travels_ were in preparation, Murray astounded Milman by revea... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oct. 15, 1829. To Bath with Bessy, to make purchases, carpets, chimney pieces, etc., etc. In the carpet shop (in Milsom St.) where I gave a cheque for the money, and my signature betrayed who I was, a strong sensation evident through the whole establishment, to Bessy's great amu... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As long, he wrote,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We found our hero in his study, a table before him, covered with books and papers, a draw half opened and stuffed with letters, a piano also open at a little distance; and the thief himself, a little man, but full of spirits, with eyes, hands, feet, and frame for ever in motion,... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were I obliged to choose which should be my direct paymaster, the government or the people, I should say without hesitation, the people; but I prefer holding on my free course, humble as it is, unpurchased by either; nor shall I the less continue, as far as my limited sphere of ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up Liberty's steep by Truth and Eloquence led, With eyes on her temple fix'd, how proud was thy tread! Ah, better thou ne'er hadst lived that summit to gain, Or died in the porch, than thus dishonour the fane."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Written in one of those mo... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ") ready to place a crown on his head. It had been arranged that the Muses should follow on foot; but as the crowd pressed in, Moore made three of them get up on the car. As they proceeded slowly along, with a band playing Irish melodies, and the tune set to Byron's"
},
{
... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The packet was full of people coming to see friends off, and amongst others was a party of ladies, who, I should think, had dined on board, and who, on my being made known to them, almost devoured me with kindness, and at length proceeded so far as to insist on, each of them, _k... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As we were provided with neither, Moore writes,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My dearest Tom,--Can it _really_ be true that you have a pension of £300 a year? Mrs., Mr., two Misses and young Longman were here to-day, and tell me it is really the case, and that they have seen it in two papers. Should it turn out true, I know not how we can be thankful enou... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bessy doing marvellously well, and the little fright, as all such young things are, prospering also."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In singing 'There's a song of the Olden Time,' the feeling which I had so long suppressed (for he had been active in endeavouring to keep up his mother's spirits)"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could I ever have thought, he writes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even when he wrote this, he did not realise the worst; the truth was not forced on him till his wife had been"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next morning (Sunday 8th) I rose early, and, on approaching the room, heard the dear child's voice as strong, I thought, as usual; but on entering, I saw death plainly in her face. When I asked her how she had slept, she said 'Pretty well,' in her usual courteous manner; but her... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And such is the end of so many years of fondness and of hope; and nothing is left us but the dream (which may God in his mercy realise), that we shall see our pure child again in a world more worthy of her."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My sweet sister Nell, just the same gentle spirit as ever; both in great delight with our boys; and my dear Bess never looked so handsome as she did sitting by my mother, with a face bearing the utmost sweetness and affection, all for my sake. Had a most happy family dinner."
... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has caused me tears and sad thoughts, but to _you_ it will bring these and hard _hard_ work. Why do people sigh for children? They know not what sorrow will come with them. How _can_ you arrange for the payment? and what could have caused him to require such a sum? Take care ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lenior et melior fit accedente senecta"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was an air of truth and reality which half lured my poor Bess and myself into hailing it as a providential God-send. Already, indeed, her generous heart was apportioning out the different presents it would enable her to make to my sister, to the poor H----s, etc. Alas! ala... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She reverted in her odd way to the early days of our acquaintance, and said, 'I didn't so much like you in those days. You were too-too--what shall I say?' 'Too brisk and airy perhaps,' said I. 'Yes,' she replied, taking hold of one of my grizzly locks, 'I like you better since ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The last of our five children now are gone and I am left desolate and alone. Not a single relative have I now left in the world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "says Lord John Russell,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tommy dearly loved a lord ; and a hundred people know this saying, for one who has seen Byron's sincerer utterance (not published in Moore's edition of the _Life and Letters_):--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have had the kindest letter from Moore. I do think that... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Met Moore at dinner, and spent a very pleasant three hours. He told his stories with a hit-or-miss air, as if accustomed to people of rapid apprehension. It being asked at Paris who they would have as godfather for Rothschild's child, 'Talleyrand,' said a Frenchman. _'Pourquoi, ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Erin, the smile and the tear in thine eye, is to the tune of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eileen Aroon, and the Irish words (which survive in this instance and, I am told by my friend Mr. O'Neil Russell, in only one other), do not correspond in metre with Moore's. ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I sing the wild song 'twas once such pleasure, to hear, When our voices, commingling, breathed, like one, on the ear; And, as Echo far off through the vale my sad orison rolls, I think, O my love! 'tis thy voice, from the Kingdom of Souls, Faintly answering still the notes ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They slander thee sorely, who say thy vows are frail-- Hadst thou been a false one, thy cheek had look'd less pale, They say too, so long thou hast worn those lingering chains, That deep in thy heart they have printed their servile stains-- Oh! foul is the slander--no chain coul... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Farewell, but whenever you welcome the hour"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let Fate do her worst; there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy, Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And tiring back the features that joy used... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drink to her, who long Hath waked the poet's sigh, The girl who gave to song What gold could never buy."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. Though Wisdom oft has sought me, I scorn'd the lore she brought me. My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, where's the slave so lowly, Condemn'd to chains unholy, Who, could he burst His bonds at first, Would pine beneath them slowly? What soul, whose wrongs degrade it, Would wait till time decay'd it, When thus its wing At once may spring To the throne of Him who made it? Farewe... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Avenging and bright fall the swift sword of Erin On him who the brave sons of Usna betray'd-- For every fond eye he hath waken'd a tear in, A drop from his heart-wounds shall weep o'er her blade."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's the slave so lowly Condemned to chains unholy,"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When he who adores thee ), or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Prince's Song ("
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When first I m... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the curse Heaven keeps for the haughty came over Her merchants rapacious, her rulers unjust, And, a ruin, at last, for the earthworm to cover, The Lady of Kingdoms lay low in the dust."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Harp that once"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dear Harp of my Country! farewell to thy numbers, This sweet wreath of song is the last we shall twine! Go, sleep with the sunshine of Fame on thy slumbers, Till touch'd by some hand less unworthy than mine: If the pulse of the patriot, soldier, or lover, Have throbb'd at our la... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fall'n is thy throne, O Israel! Silence is o'er thy plains; Thy dwellings all lie desolate, Thy children weep in chains."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord! that arch of thine; My censer's breath the mountain airs, An... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! had we some bright little isle of our own, In a blue summer ocean far off and alone, Where a leaf never dies in the still-blooming bowers, And the bee banquets on through a whole year of flowers; Where the sun loves to pause With so fond a delay, That the night only draws A ... |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Moore has done more for the revival of our national spirit than all the political writers whom Ireland has seen for a century."
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Moore and his First Editions"
}
] |
34930 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dublin, Published by F. Rhames, 16 Exchange Street. Price 3 British Shillings"
}
] |
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