THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no... The Token: A Christmas and New Year's Present - Page 246edited by - 1831 - 350 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Johnson - 1844 - 400 pages
...haughty Emperor often threatened to drive the English leopard! TARA. The harp that once through TAHA'S Halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls. As if that soul were fled. THB " HILL OF TARA," three or four miles from Navan, celebrated as not only the site of an Irish city,... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 438 pages
...thought superior to all others. When, therefore, Moore mournfully sings — " The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were dead" — we must not understand him literally. Many harps still thrill all through Ireland ; and although... | |
| James Johnson - 1844 - 406 pages
...eminence, all presenting the air of desolation and solitude. TARA. The harp that once through TAKA'S Halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled. THE " HILL OP TARA," three or four miles from Navan, celebrated as not only the site of an Irish city,... | |
| Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 126 pages
...blind also, if I do not mistake. When, therefore, Moore mournfully sings, " The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tarn's walk, As if that soul were fled," his lamentation must not be literally understood. Many harps... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...for the maiden who sleeps in this THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. TaE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls An if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. TRE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Xow hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1847 - 310 pages
...passed, and he may now be seen, any summer's day, seated at the door of his cottage, with a red night-cap on his head, and a short black pipe in his mouth,...as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled !" TWO ACTORS FOR ONE PART. CHAPTER I. A RENDEZVOUS IN THE IMPERIAL GARDEN. IT was near the end of... | |
| Asenath Nicholson - 1850 - 464 pages
..." vines and fig-trees/' with none to make her afraid.. and though — " The harp that once through Tara's halls, The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul was fled. Yet let it once more waken The sweetness of its slumbering strain." The Third Part is legible,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1851 - 918 pages
...for thee. THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS, THE harp that once through Тага'зЪаИа, The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled. — So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, that once beat high... | |
| Victor von Arentsschild - 1851 - 588 pages
...(Stolj: für Мф unterjugeljn ! THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TAR A'S HALLS. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walle, As if that soul were fled. — So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er,... | |
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