The Poems of Thomas DavisP. M. Haverty, 1854 - 251 páginas |
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The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected : with Notes and Historical ... Thomas Davis Visualização integral - 1846 |
The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical ... Thomas Davis Visualização integral - 1857 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
AIR-The Amhalgaidh Armagh army Ballad banner battle BATTLE OF BENBURB Benburb Bernard MacMahon Blackwater blood Bodenstown BOG-TROTTERS brave castle cavalry Celt clan Clare's Dragoons Connaught Cremona crúisgín lán cuirassiers CYMRIC Dathi Davis dear death Dungannon Eibhlín a rúin English Fanny Power fear fierce fight Finae flag Flower of Finae Fontenoy force fought Freedom gan oidhir n-a Glengarriff grave guard hand heart hill honour hope horse Hurrah Ireland Irish Brigade Irish front Limerick Logrian look Lord Luimneach linn-ghlas maiden men of Harlech Monro mountain Munster Nation never o'er O'Neill oidhir n-a bh-farradh Owen Roe penal days Poems poor exile proud regiment round sabre SACK OF BALTIMORE Sacsanach Sarsfield Saxon slain slave soldiers song soul spirit steed sweet sword thought Tipperary trees troops truagh gan oidhir tyrant Ulster Ululu Vide Viva wail wave weep Wolfe Tone
Passagens conhecidas
Página 75 - So come in the evening, or come in the morning, Come when you're looked for, or come without warning, Kisses and welcome you'll find here before you, And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you...
Página 139 - We thought you would not die — we were sure you would not go, And leave us in our utmost need to Cromwell's cruel blow Sheep without a shepherd, when the snow shuts out the sky Oh ! why did you leave us, Owen? Why did you die?
Página 133 - And full of love, and peace, and rest — its daily labour o'er — Upon that cosy creek there lay the town of Baltimore. A deeper rest, a starry trance, has come with midnight there; No sound, except that throbbing wave, in earth, or sea, or air, The massive capes, and ruined towers, seem conscious of the calm; The fibrous sod and stunted trees are breathing heavy balm. So still the night, these two long barques, round Dunashad that glide Must trust their oars— methinks not few — against the...
Página 135 - Then sunk the grandsire on the floor, his grandbabes clutching wild ; Then fled the maiden moaning faint, and nestled with the child ; But see, yon pirate strangled lies, and crushed with splashing heel, While o'er him in an Irish hand there sweeps his Syrian steel — Though virtue sink, and courage fail, and misers yield their store...
Página 75 - We'll tread round the rath on the track of the fairy, We'll look on the stars, and we'll list to the river, Till you ask of your darling what gift you can give her.
Página 75 - I'll adore you ! Light is my heart since the day we were plighted ; Red is my cheek that they told me was blighted ; The green of the trees looks far greener than ever, And the linnets are singing,
Página 137 - Did they dare, did they dare, to slay Owen Roe O'Neill?" "Yes, they slew with poison him, they feared to meet with steel." May God wither up their hearts! May their blood cease to flow! May they walk in living death, who poisoned Owen Roe! "Though it break my heart to hear, say again the bitter words.
Página 94 - WHEN boyhood's fire was in my blood, I read of ancient freemen, For Greece and Rome who bravely stood, THREE HUNDRED MEN and THREE MEN.* And then I prayed I yet might see Our fetters rent in twain, And Ireland, long a province, be A NATION ONCE AGAIN.