This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...in my soul's deep memory till I die;"The last of joy's last relics here below, "The one sweet drop, in all this waste of woe,"My heart has treasured from affection's spring, "To soothe and cool its deadly withering! "But thou--yes, thou must go--for ever go; "This place is not for thee--for thee! oh no,"Did I but tell ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...in my soul's deep memory till I die;"The last of joy's last relics here below, "The one sweet drop, in all this waste of woe,"My heart has treasured from affection's spring, "To soothe and cool its deadly withering! "But thou--yes, thou must go--for ever go; "This place is not for thee--for thee! oh no,"Did I but tell thee half, thy tortured brain"Would burn like mine, and mine go wild again 1 "Enough that Guilt reigns here--that hearts once good "Now tainted, chilled and broken are his food.--"Enough that we are parted--that there rolls "A flood of headlong fate between our souls,"Whose darkness severs me as wide from thee j "As hell from heaven to all eternity!" "zelica, Zelica!" the youth exclaimed, In all the tortures of a mind inflamed Almost to madness--"by that sacred Heaven,"Where yet, if prayers can move, thou 'It be forgiven,"As thou art here---here, in this writhing heart, "All sinful, wild, and ruined as thou art!"By the remembrance of our once pure love,"Which like a church-yard light still burns above 'The grave of our lost souls--which guilt in thee "Cannot extinguish nor despair in me! "I do conjure, implore thee to fly hence--"If thou hast yet one spark of innocence, "Fly with me from this place "--"With thee! oh bliss! "' T is worth whole years of torment to hear this."What! take the lost one with thee?--let her rove "By thy dear side, as in those days of love,"When we were both so happy, both so pure--"Too heavenly dream! if there 's on earth a cure "For the sunk heart, 't is this--day after day"To be the blest companion of thy way; "To hear thy angel eloqu...
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Add this copy of Thomas Moore's Complete Poetical Works to cart. $150.00, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1895 by Thomas Y. Crowell.
Edition:
1895, Thomas Y. Crowell
Hardcover
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Publisher:
Thomas Y. Crowell
Published:
1895
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
8209582289
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With Explanatory Notes and Biographical Introductions. Old bookplates on pastedowns; very light rubbing; a very nice set. 2 vols. 8vo,
