| English poetry - 1831 - 272 pages
...broke, O ruined Harp, like thee ! THE HARP THAT ONCE IN TARA'S HALLS. T. Moore. THE Harp that once in Tara's Halls The soul of Music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's Walls, As if that soul was fled : So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat... | |
| Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...systems, and that the attempt to improve is equally culpable as an act of delusion or of presumption. " So hearts that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no rrore." How shall Mirh a frequent vet lamentable termination of the maternal career be avoided ) To... | |
| 1834 - 764 pages
...listened to her singing our national Gramachree, we will not soon forget, as the words were repeated, " So sleeps the pride of former days. So glory's thrill Is o'er," how the bright tear stood in her long lashes, and spoke feelings for her country too beautiful for... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. AIR — Gramachree. THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shod, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul...once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more ! No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells ; The chord alone, that breaks at night,... | |
| Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...cisterns for washing hands and feet, a ceremony not dispensed with from the highest to the lowest. The harp that once through TARA'S halls The soul of...beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more ! No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of TARA swells ; The chord, alone, that breaks at night,... | |
| Alfred Bunn - Theater - 1840 - 346 pages
...it complete, the account of which death only reached me as I was winding up this tale of sorrow : " The harp that once through Tara's halls " The soul...as mute on Tara's walls " As if that soul were fled ! " Paganini died at Nice, on the 27th of last month, and in making such a memorandum, I may be pardoned... | |
| Alfred Bunn - Theater - 1840 - 342 pages
...it complete, the account of which death only reached me as I was winding up this tale of sorrow : " The harp that once through Tara's halls " The soul...as mute on Tara's walls " As if that soul were fled ! " Paganini died at Nice, on the 27th of last month, and in making such a memorandum, I may be pardoned... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1841 - 396 pages
...that Heaven can give Is the pride of thus dying for thee. THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of...beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells ; The chord alone, that breaks at night,... | |
| william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...ev'-ry m £ you, For tho'yqur tongue no promise claim'l ,Yourch:ums\vould make me V j-' I'/E, LJ ILJ p shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were ^ ^ spring, Iheard a maid in Bed -lam Who moumiul-ly did i ;*'. . i . ^"t ao .1 a ML spray, They sungtheir... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 600 pages
...borrow again the illustration we have already quoted, the strings of the Irish harp so long broken — " The harp that once through Tara's Halls The soul of music shed — " are again restored, and if not yet quite " in tune," give out under a master-hand the sounds... | |
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