 She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking — Ah! little they think who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking...  The Casket - Page 1581828Full view - About this book
 | Asenath Nicholson - Famines - 1851 - 464 pages
...Henry Sturgeon. It is long since Moore sung in sweet strains the never-to-be-forgotten melody of " She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps, For her heart in his grave... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers (Secondary) - 1851 - 288 pages
...hands were crossed on her heaving bosom, and she waved her body as she sung with touching pathos, 18 " She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps, For her heart in his grave is... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1851 - 918 pages
...stole ; And her ghost was seen to glide, Smiling o'er the fatal tide. 38 39 SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND." SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovera are round her, sighing : But coldly she turns from tlioir gaze, and weeps, For her heart in... | |
 | Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...length sunk into the grave — the victim of a broken heart. It was on her that TOM MOORE composed the following lines : — She is far from the land...songs of her dear native plains, Every note which ho loved awaking — Ah ! little they think who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 318 pages
...FAR FROM THE I^AND. She is far from the innd where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and...her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild song of her dear native plains, Kvery note which he loved awaking ; Ah ! little they think, who delight... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, English - 1852 - 212 pages
...IS FAR FROM THE LAND. SHE is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing ; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and...her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild song of her dear native plains, Every note which he lov'd awaking ; — He had liv'd for his love,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 460 pages
...were crossed on her heaving bosom, and she waved her body as she sung with touching pathos : — " She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing, But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps, For her heart in his grave is... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...dancing, frivolous epic measure of French poetry. The latter runs in this rhythmical fashion: — " She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps." And in this measure is composed the Henriade of Voltaire, with all the famed tragedies of Corneille and... | |
 | Washington Irving - Gift books - 1853 - 304 pages
...was on her, says our Author, that Moore, the distinguished Irish Poet, composed ihe following bnes : She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighmg; But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying. She sings... | |
 | John W. Burke - Ireland - 1853 - 324 pages
...her misfortunes ; and it is said that when left alone, she was heard to sing them at Mr. Penrose's : She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are ro\nd her sighing ; But coldly tl.e turns from their gaze aud weeps, For her heart iu his grate... | |
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