 | Victor von Arentsschild - English poetry - 1851 - 588 pages
...9?ut lieber, mtil broben eiçfiumê #öf)'n. FLY NOT YET. Fly not yet, 't is just the hour, V\ hi'ir pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sous of night, And maids u im love the moon. 'T was but to bless these hours of shade That beauty and... | |
 | Scotland - 1852 - 838 pages
...cooing of doves and the songs of nightingales were not the music to accompany such verses as these — " Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour, When pleasure, like...bloom for sons of night, And maids who love the moon." We can imagine the look of melancholy with which, after having finished his stanzas, Moore gave a moonlight... | |
 | Walter Colton - History - 1852 - 512 pages
...only out hunting the gazelle. Just list the numbers as they break from her thoughtless heart : — Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like...scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for BODS of night, And maids who love the mooa 1 And yet that moon before it wanes may gleam upon her father's... | |
 | Rev. H. Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., - 1854 - 262 pages
...And Pleasure, sweetly thrilling,s Quivers in the breasts of her votaries. 11 EXERCISE CXVII. ALCAICS. Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like...bloom for sons of night, And maids who love the Moon. 'Twas but to bless these hours of shade That Beauty and the Moon were made : 'Tis then their soft attractions... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 274 pages
...a way as to deceive those who inquired for the original works. Mr. Moore's song began thus : — " Fly not yet 'tis just the hour, When pleasure like...for sons of night ; And maids who love the moon." The defendant's song was to this effect : — " Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour, When pleasure moves... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1854 - 230 pages
...a way as to deceive those who inquired for the original works. Mr. Moore's song began thus : — " Fly not yet 'tis just the hour, When pleasure like...for sons of night ; And maids who love the moon." The defendant's song was to this effect : — " Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour, When pleasure moves... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1854 - 184 pages
...throh she gives Is when some heart indignant hreaks, To show that still she lives. FLY NOT YET. FLT not yet; 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That seorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to hloom for sona of night, And niiN.i1 who love the moon. 'T... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1855 - 810 pages
...only throb she gives, Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. FLY NOT YET. FLY not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like...hours of shade That beauty and the moon were made ; 'Tis then their soft attractions glowing Set the tides and goblets flowing. Oh! stay, — Oh! stay,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Folk music - 1856 - 348 pages
...when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. FLY NOT YET. TTILY not yet ; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower...That beauty and the moon were made ; 'T is then their soft attractions glowing Set the tides and goblets flowing. Oh! stay, — Oh! stay, — Joy so seldom... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 408 pages
...only throb she gives, Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. FLY NOT YET. FLY not yet, 'tis just, the hour "When pleasure, like...hours of shade That beauty and the moon were made ; 'Tis then their soft attractions glowing Set the tides and goblets flowing. Oh! stay, — Oh! stay,... | |
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Tis then their soft attractions glowing Set the tides and goblets flowing. Oh! stay, — Oh! stay, — Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that, oh ! 'tis pain To break its links so soon. 
