Put off the vestal Veil, nor, oh!
Let weeping angels View it;
Your cheeks belie its virgin snow.
And blush repenting through it.

Put off the fatal zone you wear;
The shining pearls around it
Are tears, that fell from Virtue there,
The hour when Love unbound it.

(C) Thomas Moore
03/10/2020


Best Poems of Thomas Moore

• Fly Not Yet
• Spring And Autumn.
• Her Last Words, At Parting.
• The Fudges In England. Letter Vii. From Miss Fanny Fudge, To Her Cousin, Miss Kitty ----.
• All In A Family Way
• Quick! We Have But A Second
• Oh, Come To Me When Daylight Sets. (venetian Air.)
• I Saw From The Beach
• Awful Event.
• The Fudge Family In Paris Letter Xi. From Phelim Connor To ----.
• Did Not
• Oh! Breathe Not His Name
• Go Where Glory Waits Thee
• Oh, Ye Dead!
• War Song
• Sail On, Sail On