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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore is a compilation that showcases the breadth of Moore's literary contributions, including his famous melodies and ballads, presented in a single volume. more

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Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore, born on May 28, 1779 in Ireland and died on February 25, 1852, was a renowned Irish poet. Moore is known for his lyrical and narrative poems, which were deeply influenced by Romanticism and have had a profound impact on poets of later generations. more

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“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

“I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.”

“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”