5 Thomas Moore Quotes on Nature

Thomas Moore quotes on nature

1. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.

16. 'Tis the last rose of Summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

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23. There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.

24. Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

25. Oh! ever thus from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurst a dear gazelle To glad me with its soft black eye But when it came to know me well And love me it was sure to die!