 | James Burke - 1879 - 276 pages
...seemed as if the last star in the firmament of Ireland's bards had set. It seemed indeed as if — ' The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hung as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.' But that star of Ireland's song, Moore, greatest... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 pages
...blessing that Heaven can give Is the pride of thus dying for thee. THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. THE harp that once through Tara's halls The...former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, tliat once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright The... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...mountain, They'll weep for the maiden who sleeps in this wave. MooRE. THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. THE harp that once through Tara's halls The...that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former d:iys, So glory's tin-ill is o'er, And hearts that onco beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no... | |
 | Thomas Orrock - English poetry - 1880 - 348 pages
...readers of the JDunfermline Saturday Press, and which I now dedicate to my youthful readers). X. ' ' The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of...hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were dead." MOORE. AGAIN I take the reader to the railway bridge on the Loan, but instead of turning to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...dying, wrote, was — " Liberty !" * * * Another no less striking, we all remember it, beginning — The harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of...Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls as if that soul had fled. So sleeps the pride of former days — so glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...wrought for the [ouses ivnd the Word ! THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S , and Hulbert sheil, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were lied. So sleeps the pride of former days,... | |
 | James Bonwick - Ethnology - 1880 - 544 pages
...bigoted children of St. Patrick are as satisfied that Welshmen are indebted to them for the same. " The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed," was no romance; for the most ancient Irish MSS. refer to harpers and their privileges. However popular... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 pages
...blessing that Heaven can give Is the pride of thus dying for thee. THE HARP THAT ONCE THROUGH TARA'S HALLS. THE harp that once through Tara's halls The...days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, that ouee beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more. No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp... | |
 | Labor unions - 1913 - 1190 pages
...And plays this sad tune on a phantom trombone. "The harp that wance through Turn's halls The sowl av music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that sowl were dead." And all who've heard the lonesome keens That that grim ghost has blown Know well by... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...parodying the opening line of Thomas Moore's "The Harp That Once through Tara's Halls," which begins "The harp that once through Tara's halls/ The soul...mute on Tara's walls,/ As if that soul were fled." 168.14/165.38 ALL THE BEEF TO THE HEELS See entry 66.8. l68.20/l66.2 THE HUGUENOTS BROUGHT THAT HERE... | |
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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. — 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... 
