Rash dreamer, return ! O ye winds of the main, Bear him back to his own peaceful Ara again ; Rash fool ! for a vision of fanciful bliss, To barter thy calm life of labour and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain, He never re-visited Ara again... The Irish chieftains; or, A struggle for the crown - Page 431by Charles Ffrench Blake-Forster - 1872 - 728 pagesFull view - About this book
| Denis Florence MacCarthy - Ballads, Irish - 1846 - 554 pages
...barter thy calm life of labour and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain ; He never re-visited Ara again ! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away 1 THE MOUNTAIN SPRITE. 1IY THOMAS MOORE. In yonder valley there dwelt, alone, A youth, whose moments... | |
| Irish ballads - 1846 - 260 pages
...barter thy calm life of labour and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain ; He never re-visited Ara again ! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! THE MOUNTAIN SPRITE. BY THOMAS MOORE. IN yonder valley there dwelt, alone, A youth, whose moments... | |
| Edward Hayes - Ballads, English - 1856 - 396 pages
...barter thy calm life of labor and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain ; He never revisited Ara again ! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! THE CLURICAUNE. BY JL FORREST. [The superstition respecting the CLURICAUNE is rather a singular one.... | |
| Edward Hayes (collector of ballads) - 1856 - 442 pages
...barter thy calm life of labour and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain ; He never revisited Ara again ! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! THE CLURICAUNE. BY JL FORREST. [The superstition respecting the CLURICAUNE is rather a singular one.... | |
| Gerald Griffin - 1857 - 412 pages
...barter thy calm life of labour and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain, He never re-visited Ara again ; Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! v. To you, gentle friends, need I pause to reveal, The lessons of prudence my verses conceal ; How... | |
| Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...barter thy calm life of labour and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain ; He never revisited Ara again ! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! The above, as a matter of course, is placed in succession to Dr. Croly's "Atlantis." The coincidence... | |
| Ireland - 1861 - 374 pages
...this Atlantic sea."—Plato's Timaeus. The warning of reason was spoke* in vain; He never revisited Ara again! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest and spray, And he died on tin: waters, away, far away ! There is a pretty little legend of the Ehine, translated by Dulcken,... | |
| John O'Hanlon - Folk-Lore, Irish - 1870 - 382 pages
...seemed to recede in proportion as he advanced. At last, a rising tempest submerged his bark, when, — " Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! " The " Great Land " was a denomination often applied to Hy-Breasail ; and, as in many other instances,... | |
| English poetry - 1876 - 286 pages
...barter thy calm life of labor and peace. The warning of reason was spoken in vain; He never revisited Ara again ! Night fell on the deep, amidst tempest...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! Gerald Grijfin. Kilkee. THE SEA-CLIFFS OF KILKEE. AWFULLY beautiful art thou, O sea ! Viewed from... | |
| David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...thy cakn life of labour and peace ! — The warning of reason was spoken in vain, He never revisited Ara again ! . . . . Night fell on the deep, amidst...and spray, And he died on the waters, away, far away ! XXI DOMESTIC ASIDES — TRUTH IN PABENTHE8IS. — Thomas Hood. " I KEALLY take it very kind, this... | |
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