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Subject: MOORE, THOMAS (1779-1852)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER A LECTURE ON MOORE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shine soft, ye trembling tears of light
Last Line: That ravished mortal ears!
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


AN INVITATION TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE POET MOORE, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O come and hail the day
Last Line: And bind more closely friend to friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Birthdays; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets


FOR THE MOORE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchanter of erin, whose magic has bound us
Last Line: Shall wreathe her bright harp with the garlands of moore!
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


ODE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou great unknown!
Last Line: And rob oblivion ev'n of the unknown
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


OH SAY NOT, MY LOVE (IN IMITATION OF MOORE), by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh say not, my love, with that mortified air
Last Line: For me the kind language of love.
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good plays are scarce
Last Line: But now 't is moore that's little.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Dramatists


RECOLLECTIONS OF 'LALLA ROOKH', by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we were farm boys, years ago
Last Line: Some flowers of rhyme untouched by time, %and songs that sing forever
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry And Poets


REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE LIVING LUSTRES, BY T. M., by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O why should our dull retrospective addresses
Last Line: Till set to the music of erin-go-bragh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Nature; Theater & Theaters


THE IMPROVISATORE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the words?
Last Line: And that is next to best!
Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Dramatists


THE IRISH AVATAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere the daughter of brunswick is cold in her grave
Last Line: T is the glory of grattan, and genius of moore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): George Iv, King Of England (1762-1830); Ireland; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Irish


THOMAS MOORE AT ST. ANNE'S, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On these swift waters borne along
Last Line: The constant star that loves the north.
Subject(s): Birds; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets


THOMAS MOORE, ESQ., by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If titania, just wakened from dreams which the rose
Last Line: And to wish for her welfare is wishing for thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


THOSE EVENING BELLS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those evening bells, those evening bells
Last Line: Forget to stay those evening bells.
Subject(s): Bells; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


TO A BOTTLE OF OLD PORT, by WILLIAM MAGINN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he who adores thee has left but the dregs
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


TO THOMAS MOORE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My boat is on the shore
Last Line: And a health to thee, tom moore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Friendship;farewell To Tom Moore
Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


TO THOMAS MOORE (3), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are you doing now
Last Line: Oh thomas moore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Friendship; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Poetry & Poets


TWAS EVER THUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never bought a young gazelle
Last Line: That didn't misconduct itself
Subject(s): "moore, Thomas (1779-1852);


WHO DID WHICH? OR, WHO INDEED?, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft in the stilly night
Last Line: And I'd rather have my facts all wrong %than have no facts whatsoever
Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


YOUNG GAZELLE; A MOORE-ISH TALE, by WALTER PARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In early youth, as you may guess
Last Line: I'll never have a young gazelle.
Subject(s): Gazelles; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852); Youth