 My boyish ear still clung to hear Of Erin's pride of yore, — Ere Norman foot had dared pollute Her independent shore — Of chiefs, long dead, who rose to head Some gallant patriot few ; Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear...  A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846 - Page 294by Theresa Cornwallis I. Whitby West ("Mrs. F. West, ") - 1847 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Davis - Ballads, English - 1845 - 364 pages
...all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land— To strike one blow for you. T. What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads...for you, Dear land— Were sweet, endured for you. SLIABH CUILINN. THE WEXFORD MASSACRE. 1649. BY MJ BARRY. I. THEY knelt around the Cross divine, The... | |
 | Songs - 1853 - 456 pages
...strike one blow for you, Dear landTo strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest Lrt other heads divine ; By work or word, with voice or...: If death should come, that martyrdom Were sweet, endur'd for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endur'd for you. SHEPHERDS, I HAVE LOST MY LOVE. Shepherds,... | |
 | Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...main his brothers twain Were sent to pine and rue ; And still they turn'd, with hearts that burn'd, In hopeless love to you Dear land — In hopeless...come, that martyrdom Were sweet, endured for you, Dear laud — Were sweet, endured for you. No name is given to elaim the authorship of these passionate... | |
 | Spirit - 1861 - 224 pages
...What path is best your rights to wreit Let other heads divine ; By work or word, with voice or swonl, To follow them be mine. The breast that zeal and hatred...for you, Dear land — Were sweet endured for you. SLIA.B CUILINN SONNET. BY BN SHANNON, TRANSLATOR OF DANTE, ACTHOB OF " TALES OLD AND NEW." Is fair,... | |
 | Alfred Mason Williams - English poetry - 1881 - 472 pages
...wrest, Let other heads divine ; By work or word, with voice or sword, To follow them be mine. The heart that zeal and hatred steel, No terrors can subdue...that martyrdom Were sweet endured for you, Dear land, CATE OF ARAOLEN. DOMHNALL GLEANNACH.* WHEN first I saw thee, Cate, That summer evening late, Down at... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1884 - 458 pages
...pine and rue ; And still they turn'd, with hearts that burn'd, In hopeless love to you, Dear land — My boyish ear still clung to hear Of Erin's pride...for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endured for you, No name is given to claim the authorship of these passionate lines. There are many who would not like... | |
 | Patrick John Kenedy - 1898 - 512 pages
...What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads divine, By work or word, with voice or ssvord, To follow them be mine. The breast that zeal and hatred...you, ' Dear land — Were sweet, endured for you. ERIN'S LOVELY HOME. When I was young and in my prime, my age just twenty-one, I acted as a servant... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1898 - 634 pages
...manly qualities and virtues. And, as a connection of his family wrote, some fifty years later : — • If death should come, that martyrdom Were sweet endured for you, Dear Land ! Were sweet, endured for you ! NORMAN STUART. CYRANO DE BERGERAC. MEDMOND ROSTAND calls his latest drama a " come'die . heYoi'que,"... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1903 - 434 pages
...My native waters blue, But crimson red o'er both shall spread, Ere I am false to you, Dear land — Ere I am false to you. When I behold your mountains...for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endured for you. SKabk Cuilinn CVIII of O bay of Dublin ! my heart you 're troublin', Your beauty haunts me like a fevered... | |
 | American ballads and songs - 1903 - 430 pages
...I behold your mountains bold — Your noble lakes and streams — A mingled tide of grief and pride I think of all your long, dark thrall — Your martyrs...for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endured for you. Sliabh Cut/inn CVIII © 48ap of Dublin O bay of Dublin ! my heart you 're troublin', Your beauty haunts... | |
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