248 Quotes by Thomas Moore

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life / As love’s young dream.

There is nothing half so sweet in lifeAs love's young dream.

When once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, / The maiden herself will steal after it soon.

My Birthday! What a difference sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears.

Romantic love is not only a necessary illusion, it is a desirable deception. Naturally, if we enter that illusion without an imagination for poetry and music, we may literally play the fool as love buffets us; but if we appreciate its theatrics, we could be profoundly deepened by it...It is one of the most powerful and most effective forms of soul-making.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, with love's true instinct, back to thee!

A boat at midnight sent alone to drift upon the moonless sea, a lute, whose leading chord is gone, a wounded bird, that hath but one imperfect wing to soar upon, are like what I am, without thee.

There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart, Which rank corruption destines for their heart!