From “Irish Melodies”
O THE DAYS are gone when beauty bright
        My heart’s chain wove!
When my dream of life, from morn till night,
        Was love, still love!
        New hope may bloom,
        And days may come,
  Of milder, calmer...

Poet: Thomas Moore

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
  Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,
  Like fairy-gifts fading away,
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
  Let thy loveliness fade as it...

Poet: Thomas Moore

Summoned from His Bride by the “Fiery Cross of Roderick Dhu”
From “The Lady of the Lake”

THE HEATH this night must be my bed,
The bracken curtain for my head,
My lullaby the warder’s tread,
  Far, far from love and thee, Mary;
To-morrow eve, more...