Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moorewas an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer". He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 May 1779
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
irish-poet tears
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
became gave glimpse random wreck wretched
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
seas
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
half irish-poet life sweet
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
brings days fond memory saint-patrick's-day
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
friendship love valentines-day
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
bright brightest lost sweet
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
breeze buds delicious dies gardening others secret sunlight themselves timid wake
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
awake nature
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
dress help hundred land loving six taught ways
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
far less remember
To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!
fda goose
Wow, I got goose bumps. It's really appropriate the FDA acted.
good wrong
If it's too good to be true, they are probably the wrong thing to take,
challenge dangerous products store
We can get dangerous products off store shelves, but the real challenge is to get them out of families' homes.