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Thomas Moore

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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.


— Thomas Moore


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All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.


— Thomas Moore


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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.


— Thomas Moore


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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.


— Thomas Moore


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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.


— Thomas Moore


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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.


— Thomas Moore


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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.


— Thomas Moore


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Came but for friendship, and took away love.


— Thomas Moore


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A Poem with Songs (December 1831)
Irish Antiquities (The Times 5 March 1832)
From the Hon. (The Metropolitan Magazine August 1832)
Verses to the Poet Crabbe's Inkstand (The Metropolitan Magazine August 1832)
Tory Pledges (The Times 30 August 1832)
Song to the Departing Spirit of Tithe (The Metropolitan Magazine September 1832)
The Duke is the Lad (The Times 2 October 1832)
St. They met at Chalk Farm but the duel was interrupted by the arrival of the authorities and they were arrested.

In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore. He was responsible with John Murray for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer.

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