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" 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. "
Christina, the Maid of the South Seas: A Poem - Page 314
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1811 - 332 pages
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...en. 4, "Politically Suspect" (1924), trans, by HT Lowe-Porter (1928). 12 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. THOMAS MOORE, (1779-1852) Irish poet. "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls," st. 1 , Irish Melodies...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Oxford University Press, TME. - 1999 - 1160 pages
...round it still. Irish Melodies ( 1 807! 'Farewell! — but whenever' 12 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 lied. Irish Melodies (1807) 'The harp that once through Tara's halls' 13 No, there's nothing half so...
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Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs: The Story of the St. Patrick's Day Symbols

Edna Barth - 2001 - 100 pages
...written by Thomas Moore, an Irish Poet. The first stanza goes like this: 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. Tara is a hill in County Meath, twenty miles northeast of Dublin. Here, until the year 560, stood the...
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Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Travel Narratives

Constance Fenimore Woolson - 2004 - 376 pages
...made!" 17. I don't know. 18. But yes ... it's beautiful. 19. But, sir. 20. "The harp that once through Tara's halls / the soul of music shed / Now hangs...mute on Tara's walls / As if that soul were fled" was composed by Thomas Moore (1779-1852). 21. Me? That's another thing. 22. It's nothing. 23. Ferocious!...
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Strange Kin: Ireland and the American South

Kieran Quinlan - 2005 - 312 pages
...no poetry save that of Moore. — MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone with the Wind The Harp that once through Tara's halls, The soul of Music shed, Now hangs as...soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days. — THOMAS MOORE, Irish Melodies The popularity of Abram Ryan's verse and outlook— the priest himself...
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Last of the Donkey Pilgrims

Kevin O'Hara - 2005 - 436 pages
...wrote of O Carolan's death: 'The harp that once through Tara's halls I The soul of music shed I .Voiv hangs as mute on Tara's walls / As if that soul were fled. After supper, we sat before the fire, where the hearth was gold-embossed with a harp and shamrock on...
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