by Thomas Moore
HERE’S THE BOWER.
I SAW THE MOON RISE CLEAR.
LOVE AND THE SUN-DIAL.
LOVE AND TIME.
LOVE’S LIGHT SUMMER-CLOUD.
LOVE, WANDERING THRO’ THE GOLDEN MAZE.
MERRILY EVERY BOSOM BOUNDETH.
REMEMBER THE TIME.
OH, SOON RETURN.
LOVE THEE?
ONE DEAR SMILE.
YES, YES, WHEN THE BLOOM.
THE DAY OF LOVE.
LUSITANIAN WAR-SONG.
THE YOUNG ROSE.
WHEN MIDST THE GAY I MEET.
WHEN TWILIGHT DEWS.
YOUNG JESSICA.
HOW HAPPY, ONCE.
I LOVE BUT THEE.
LET JOY ALONE BE REMEMBERED NOW.
LOVE THEE, DEAREST? LOVE THEE?
MY HEART AND LUTE.
PEACE, PEACE TO HIM THAT’S GONE!
ROSE OF THE DESERT
‘TIS ALL FOR THEE.
THE SONG OF THE OLDEN TIME.
WAKE THEE, MY DEAR.
THE BOY OF THE ALPS.
FOR THEE ALONE.
HER LAST WORDS, AT PARTING.
LET’S TAKE THIS WORLD AS SOME WIDE SCENE.
LOVE’S VICTORY.
SONG OF HERCULES TO HIS DAUGHTER.1
THE DREAM OF HOME.
THEY TELL ME THOU’RT THE FAVORED GUEST.
THE YOUNG INDIAN MAID.
THE HOMEWARD MARCH.
WAKE UP, SWEET MELODY.
CALM BE THY SLEEP.
THE EXILE.
THE FANCY FAIR.
IF THOU WOULDST HAVE ME SING AND PLAY.
STILL WHEN DAYLIGHT.
THE SUMMER WEBS.
MIND NOT THO’ DAYLIGHT.
THEY MET BUT ONCE.
WITH MOONLIGHT BEAMING.
CHILD’S SONG.
THE HALCYON HANGS O’ER OCEAN.
THE WORLD WAS HUSHT.
THE TWO LOVES.
THE LEGEND OF PUCK THE FAIRY.
BEAUTY AND SONG.
WHEN THOU ART NIGH.
SONG OF A HYPERBOREAN.
THOU BIDST ME SING.
CUPID ARMED.
ROUND THE WORLD GOES.
OH, DO NOT LOOK SO BRIGHT AND BLEST.
THE MUSICAL BOX.
WHEN TO SAD MUSIC SILENT YOU LISTEN.
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.
THE DAWN IS BREAKING O’ER US.
UNPUBLISHED SONGS.
ASK NOT IF STILL I LOVE.
DEAR? YES.
UNBIND THEE, LOVE.
THERE’S SOMETHING STRANGE.
NOT FROM THEE.
GUESS, GUESS.
WHEN LOVE, WHO RULED.
STILL THOU FLIEST.
THEN FIRST FROM LOVE.
HUSH, SWEET LUTE.
BRIGHT MOON.
LONG YEARS HAVE PAST.
DREAMING FOR EVER.
THO’ LIGHTLY SOUNDS THE SONG I SING.
THE RUSSIAN LOVER.
A SELECTION FROM THE SONGS IN M. P.; OR, THE BLUE-STOCKING
BOAT GLEE.
CUPID’S LOTTERY.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
OCCASIONAL EPILOGUE.
EXTRACT FROM A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE AUTHOR, AT THE OPENING OF THE KILKENNY THEATRE, OCTOBER, 1809.
THE SYLPH’S BALL.
REMONSTRANCE.
MY BIRTH-DAY.
FANCY.
SONG. FANNY, DEAREST.
TRANSLATIONS FROM CATULLUS.
CARM. 70.
CARM. II.
CARM. 29.
TIBULLUS TO SULPICIA.
IMITATION.
INVITATION TO DINNER.
VERSES TO THE POET CRABBE’S INKSTAND.1
TO CAROLINE, VISCOUNTESS VALLETORT.
A SPECULATION.
TO MY MOTHER.
LOVE AND HYMEN.
LINES ON THE ENTRY OF THE AUSTRIANS INTO NAPLES, 1821.
SCEPTICISM.
A JOKE VERSIFIED.
ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.
TO JAMES CORRY, ESQ.
FRAGMENT OF A CHARACTER.
WHAT SHALL I SING THEE?
COUNTRY DANCE AND QUADRILLE.
GAZEL.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH ATKINSON, ESQ., OF DUBLIN.
GENIUS AND CRITICISM.
TO LADY JERSEY.
TO THE SAME.
AT NIGHT.1
TO LADY HOLLAND.
EPILOGUE.
THE DAY-DREAM.1
SONG. WHERE IS THE HEART THAT WOULD NOT GIVE
SONG OF THE POCO-CURANTE SOCIETY.
ANNE BOLEYN. TRANSLATION FROM THE METRICAL
THE DREAM OF THE TWO SISTERS.
SOVEREIGN WOMAN.
COME, PLAY ME THAT SIMPLE AIR AGAIN.
POEMS FROM THE EPICUREAN
THE VALLEY OF THE NILE.
SONG OF THE TWO CUPBEARERS.
SONG OF THE NUBIAN GIRL.
THE SUMMER FÊTE.
THE SUMMER FÊTE
SONG. ARRAY THEE, LOVE, ARRAY THEE, LOVE,
SONG. SOME MORTALS THERE MAY BE, SO WISE, OR SO FINE
TRIO.
SONG. SMOOTHLY FLOWING THRO’ VERDANT VALES,
WALTZ DUET.
SONG.
SONG AND TRIO.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG AND TRIO. THE LEVÉE AND COUCHÉE.
SONG.
EVENINGS IN GREECE
FIRST EVENING.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SECOND EVENING.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
SONG.
ALCIPHRON: A FRAGMENT.
LETTER I.
LETTER II.
LETTER III.
LETTER IV.
LALLA ROOKH
PARADISE AND THE PERI.
THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS.
THE LIGHT OF THE HARAM.
THE LOVES OF THE ANGELS.
THE LOVES OF THE ANGELS
FIRST ANGEL’S STORY.
SECOND ANGEL’S STORY.
THIRD ANGEL’S STORY.
RHYMES ON THE ROAD.
RHYMES ON THE ROAD
INTRODUCTORY RHYMES.
EXTRACT I.
EXTRACT II.
EXTRACT III.
EXTRACT IV.
EXTRACT V.
EXTRACT VI.
EXTRACT VII.
EXTRACT VIII.
EXTRACT IX.
EXTRACT X.
EXTRACT XI.
EXTRACT XII.
EXTRACT XIII.
EXTRACT XIV.
EXTRACT XV.
EXTRACT XVI.
CORRUPTION, AND INTOLERANCE.
CORRUPTION, AN EPISTLE.
INTOLERANCE, A SATIRE.
THE SCEPTIC, A PHILOSOPHICAL SATIRE.
THE SCEPTIC
TWOPENNY POST-BAG, BY THOMAS BROWN, THE YOUNGER.
PREFACE.
INTERCEPTED LETTERS, ETC.
LETTER I.
LETTER II.
LETTER III.
LETTER IV.
LETTER V.
LETTER VI.
GAZEL.
LETTER VII.
LETTER VIII.
APPENDIX.
LETTER IV. PAGE 584.
LETTER VII. PAGE 588.
SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS POEMS.
THE INSURRECTION OF THE PAPERS.
PARODY OF A CELEBRATED LETTER.1
ANACREONTIC TO A PLUMASSIER.
EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A POLITICIAN.
EPIGRAM.
KING CRACK1
AND HIS IDOLS.
WHAT’S MY THOUGHT LIKE?
EPIGRAM. DIALOG
UE BETWEEN A CATHOLIC DELEGATE AND HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.
WREATHS FOR THE MINISTERS.
EPIGRAM. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A DOWAGER AND HER MAID ON THE NIGHT OF LORD YARMOUTH’S FETE.
HORACE, ODE XI. LIB. II.
HORACE, ODE XXII. LIB. I.
THE NEW COSTUME OF THE MINISTERS.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A LADY AND GENTLEMAN, UPON THE ADVANTAGE OF (WHAT IS CALLED) “HAVING LAW1
ON ONE’S SIDE.”
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS
THE SALE OF THE TOOLS.
LITTLE MAN AND LITTLE SOUL.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR LORD WELLINGTON.
HORACE, ODE I. LIB. III.
HORACE, ODE XXXVIII. LIB. I.
IMPROMPTU.
LORD WELLINGTON AND THE MINISTERS.
TO SIR HUDSON LOWE.
AMATORY COLLOQUY BETWEEN BANK AND GOVERNMENT.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SOVEREIGN AND A ONE POUND NOTE.
AN EXPOSTULATION TO LORD KING.
THE SINKING FUND CRIED.
ODE TO THE GODDESS CERES.
A HYMN OF WELCOME AFTER THE RECESS.
MEMORABILIA OF LAST WEEK.
ALL IN THE FAMILY WAY.
BALLAD FOR THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.
MR. ROGER DODSWORTH.
COPY OF AN INTERCEPTED DESPATCH.
THE MILLENNIUM.
THE THREE DOCTORS.
EPITAPH ON A TUFT-HUNTER.
ODE TO A HAT.
NEWS FOR COUNTRY COUSINS.
A VISION.
THE PETITION OF THE ORANGEMEN OF IRELAND.
COTTON AND CORN.
THE CANONIZATION OF SAINT BUTTERWORTH.
AN INCANTATION.
A DREAM OF TURTLE.
THE DONKEY AND HIS PANNIERS.
ODE TO THE SUBLIME PORTE.
CORN AND CATHOLICS.
A CASE OF LIBEL.
LITERARY ADVERTISEMENT.
THE IRISH SLAVE.1
ODE TO FERDINAND.
HAT VERSUS WIG.
THE PERIWINKLES AND THE LOCUSTS.
NEW CREATION OF PEERS.
BATCH THE FIRST.
SPEECH ON THE UMBRELLA QUESTION.1
A PASTORAL BALLAD.
A LATE SCENE AT SWANAGE.1
TOUT POUR LA TRIPE.
ENIGMA.
DOG-DAY REFLECTIONS.
THE “LIVING DOG” AND “THE DEAD LION.”
ODE TO DON MIGUEL.
THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.
THE LIMBO OF LOST REPUTATIONS.
HOW TO WRITE BY PROXY.
IMITATION OF THE INFERNO OF DANTE.
LAMENT FOR THE LOSS OF LORD BATHURST’S TAIL.1
THE CHERRIES.
STANZAS WRITTEN IN ANTICIPATION OF DEFEAT.1
ODE TO THE WOODS AND FORESTS.
STANZAS FROM THE BANKS OF THE SHANNON.1
THE ANNUAL PILL.
WRITE ON, WRITE ON.
SONG OF THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF TITHE.
THE EUTHANASIA OF VAN.
TO THE REVEREND —— .
IRISH ANTIQUITIES.
A CURIOUS FACT.
NEW-FASHIONED ECHOES.
INCANTATION.
HOW TO MAKE A GOOD POLITICIAN.
EPISTLE OF CONDOLENCE.
THE GHOST OF MILTIADES.
ALARMING INTELLIGENCE!
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT A LATE MEETING OF REVERENDS AND RIGHT REVERENDS.
SIR ANDREW’S DREAM.
A BLUE LOVE SONG.
SUNDAY ETHICS.
AWFUL EVENT.
THE NUMBERING OF THE CLERGY.
A SAD CASE.
A DREAM OF HINDOSTAN.
THE BRUNSWICK CLUB.
PROPOSALS FOR A GYNAECOCRACY.
ADDRESSED TO A LATE RADICAL MEETING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE * * *.
P. P.
LORD HENLEY AND ST. CECILIA
ADVERTISEMENT.1
MISSING.
THE DANCE OF BISHOPS; OR, THE EPISCOPAL QUADRILLE.1
DICK * * * *
A CORRECTED REPORT OF SOME LATE SPEECHES.
MORAL POSITIONS.
THE MAD TORY AND THE COMET.
FROM THE HON. HENRY —— , TO LADY EMMA —— .
TRIUMPH OF BIGOTRY.
TRANSLATION FROM THE GULL LANGUAGE.
NOTIONS ON REFORM.
TORY PLEDGES.
ST. JEROME ON EARTH.
ST. JEROME ON EARTH.
THOUGHTS ON TAR BARRELS.
THE CONSULTATION.1
TO THE REV. CHARLES OVERTON, CURATE OF ROMALDKIRK.
LATE TITHE CASE.
FOOLS’ PARADISE.
THE RECTOR AND HIS CURATE; OR, ONE POUND TWO.
PADDY’S METAMORPHOSIS.
MORAL.
COCKER, ON CHURCH REFORM.
LES HOMMES AUTOMATES.
HOW TO MAKE ONE’S SELF A PEER.
THE DUKE IS THE LAD.
EPISTLE
LINES ON THE DEPARTURE OF LORD CASTLEREAGH AND STEWART FOR THE CONTINENT.1
TO THE SHIP IN WHICH LORD CASTLEREAGH SAILED FOR THE CONTINENT.
SKETCH OF THE FIRST ACT OF A NEW ROMANTIC DRAMA.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
THE SONG OF THE BOX.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW THALABA.
RIVAL TOPICS.1
THE BOY STATESMAN.
LETTER
MUSINGS OF AN UNREFORMED PEER.
THE REVEREND PAMPHLETEER.
RECENT DIALOGUE.
THE WELLINGTON SPA.
A CHARACTERLESS
A GHOST STORY.
THOUGHTS ON THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE PROPOSITIONS OF THE TORIES.1
ANTICIPATED MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN THE YEAR 1836.
SONG OF THE CHURCH.
LEAVE ME ALONE.
EPISTLE FROM HENRY OF EXETER TO JOHN OF TUAM.
SONG OF OLD PUCK.
POLICE REPORTS.
CASE OF IMPOSTURE.
REFLECTIONS.
NEW GRAND EXHIBITION OF MODELS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW GRAND ACCELERATION COMPANY FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE SPEED OF LITERATURE.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LATE DINNER TO DAN.
NEW HOSPITAL FOR SICK LITERATI.
RELIGION AND TRADE.
MUSINGS.
SUGGESTED BY THE LATE PROMOTION OF MRS. NETHERCOAT.
INTENDED TRIBUTE
GRAND DINNER OF TYPE AND CO.
CHURCH EXTENSION.
EPHESIAN GAZETTE.
LATEST ACCOUNTS FROM OLYMPUS.
THE TRIUMPHS OF FARCE.
THOUGHTS ON PATRONS, PUFFS, AND OTHER MATTERS.
THOUGHTS ON MISCHIEF.
EPISTLE FROM CAPTAIN ROCK TO LORD LYNDHURST.
CAPTAIN ROCK IN LONDON.
POLITICAL AND SATIRICAL POEMS.
TO THE EDITOR OF “THE MORNING CHRONICLE.”
FUM AND HUM, THE TWO BIRDS OF ROYALTY.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF SHERIDAN.
EPISTLE FROM TOM CRIB TO BIG BEN.1
FABLES FOR THE HOLY ALLIANCE.
PREFACE.
FABLE I. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE HOLY ALLIANCE.
FABLE II. THE LOOKING-GLASSES.
FABLE III. THE TORCH OF LIBERTY.
FABLE IV. THE FLY AND THE BULLOCK.
FABLE V. CHURCH AND STATE.
FABLE VI. THE LITTLE GRAND LAMA.
FABLE VII. THE EXTINGUISHERS.
FABLE VIII. LOUIS FOURTEENTH’S WIG.
THE FUDGE FAMILY IN PARIS.
PREFACE.
LETTER I.
LETTER II.
LETTER III.
LETTER IV.
LETTER V.
LETTER VI.
LETTER VII.
LETTER VIII.
LETTER IX.
LETTER X.
LETTER XI.
LETTER XII.
THE FUDGES IN ENGLAND
PREFACE.
LETTER I.
LETTER II.
EXT
RACTS FROM MY DIARY.
LETTER III.
LETTER IV.
LETTER V.
LETTER VI.
EXTRACTS FROM MY DIARY.
LETTER VII.
ANECDOTE — FROM THE “COURT JOURNAL.”
LETTER VIII.
LETTER IX.
LETTER X.
LETTER XI.
EXTRACT FROM LETTER ENCLOSED.
The Poems
In 1795 Moore graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, which had recently allowed entry to Catholic students. Moore was initially a good student, but he later put less effort into his studies. His time at Trinity came amidst the ongoing turmoil following the French Revolution.
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
ODES OF ANACREON
REMARKS ON ANACREON
ODE I.1
ODE II.
ODE III.1
ODE IV.1
ODE V.
ODE VI.1
ODE VII.
ODE VIII.1
ODE IX.
ODE X.1
ODE XI.1
ODE XII.
ODE XIII.
ODE XIV.1
ODE XV.1
ODE XVI.1
ODE XVII.
ODE XVIII.
ODE XIX.1
ODE XX.1
ODE XXI.1
ODE XXII.
ODE XXIII.
ODE XXIV.
ODE XXV.
ODE XXVI.
ODE XXVII.
ODE XXVIII.
ODE XXIX.
ODE XXX.1
ODE XXXI.1
ODE XXXII.1
ODE XXXIII.
ODE XXXIV.1
ODE XXXV.1
ODE XXXVI.1
ODE XXXVII.
ODE XXXVIII.
ODE XXXIX.
ODE XL.
ODE XLI.
ODE XLII.1
ODE XLIII.
ODE XLIV.1
ODE XLV.
ODE XLVI.1
ODE XLVII.
ODE XLVIII.
ODE XLIX.
ODE L.1
ODE LI.
ODE LII.1
ODE LIII.
ODE. LIV.1
ODE LV.1
ODE LVI.
ODE LVII1
ODE LVIII.
ODE LIX.
ODE LX.1
ODE LXI.1
ODE LXII.1
ODE LXIII.1
ODE LXIV.1
ODE LXV.1
ODE LXVI.1
ODE LXVII.
ODE LXVIII.
ODE LXIX.
ODE LXX.
ODE LXXI.
ODE LXXII.
ODE LXXIII.
ODE LXXIV.
ODE LXXV.
ODE LXXVI.
ODE LXXVII.
ODE LXXVIII.
SONGS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.
HERE AT THY TOMB.
SALE OF CUPID.
TO WEAVE A GARLAND FOR THE ROSE.
WHY DOES SHE SO LONG DELAY?
TWIN’ST THOU WITH LOFTY WREATH THY BROW?
WHEN THE SAD WORD.
MY MOPSA IS LITTLE.
STILL, LIKE DEW IN SILENCE FALLING.
UP, SAILOR BOY, ‘TIS DAY.
IN MYRTLE WREATHS.
JUVENILE POEMS.
FRAGMENTS OF COLLEGE EXERCISES.
VARIETY.
TO A BOY, WITH A WATCH, WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND
SONG. IF I SWEAR BY THAT EYE, YOU’LL ALLOW
TO ——
SONG. WHEN TIME WHO STEALS OUR YEARS AWAY
SONG. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THE TIMID TEAR
