Thomas Osborne Davis Soft Poems

  • 1.
    Why rings the knell of the funeral bell from a hundred village shrines?
    Through broad Fingall, where hasten all those long and ordered lines?
    With tear and sigh they're passing by--the matron and the maid--
    Has a hero died--is a nation's pride in that cold coffin laid?
    ...
  • 2.
    Air--The Swaggering Jig.


    I.
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  • 3.
    Air--Blind Mary.


    I.
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  • 4.
    I.

    The summer sun is falling soft on Carbery's hundred isles--
    The summer sun is gleaming still through Gabriel's rough defiles--
    ...
  • 5.
    I.

    Let Britain boast her British hosts,
    About them all right little care we;
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  • 6.
    I.

    "Did they dare, did they dare, to slay Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill?"
    "Yes, they slew with poison him they feared to meet with steel."
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  • 7.
    From Milan to Cremona Duke Villeroy rode,
    And soft are the beds in his princely abode;
    In billet and barrack the garrison sleep,
    And loose is the watch which the sentinels keep:
    ...
  • 8.
    I.

    How soft is the moon on Glengariff,
    The rocks seem to melt with the light:
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  • 9.
    The summer sun is falling soft on Carbery's hundred isles,
    The summer sun is gleaming still through Gabriel's rough defiles;
    Old Innisherkin's crumbled fane looks like a moulting bird,
    And in a calm and sleepy swell the ocean tide is heard:
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Total 9 Soft Poems by Thomas Osborne Davis

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