 On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus,...  The Archaeological Journal - Pagina 1681868Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Thomas Moore - 1861 - 778 pagine
...Ere the emerald gem of the western world Was set in the crown of a stranger. On Lough Neagh's bank, as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's...declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining ; Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days... | |
 | William McComb - 1861 - 260 pagine
...town is covered by the waters of the lake, which Moore has so beautifully versified in the well-known lines : — " On Lough Neagh's banks as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's reclining, He sees the round towers of other days In the waves beneath him shining. At various places... | |
 | 1862 - 658 pagine
...Giraldu.> Cambrensis termed them, when alluding to the popular belief, that — " On Lough N'cagU's bank» as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's declining;, He sees the Round Towers uf other «lays In the waves beneath them shining ;" themselves possess neither the beauty of the Corinthian... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1862 - 250 pagine
...still exist in Europe. What then * Some glimpse of a ruined crannoge may have given rise to Moore's lines : — " On Lough Neagh's banks, as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold moon's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining." must have... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1864 - 502 pagine
...obtained a worldwide celebrity from its being the subject of one of Moore's favourile ballads : — " On Lough Neagh's banks, as the fisherman strays. When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the Kound Towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining." It is singular that such a large basin... | |
 | 1865 - 842 pagine
...and quotes the w.-Uknown lines of Moore — " On Lough Neagh's banks as the fisherman strays, Wlii-ii the clear cold eve's declining ; He sees the round towers of other days, In tho waves beneath him shining. Thus Khali memory oft, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1866 - 512 pagine
...obtained a worldwide celebrity from its being the subject of one of Moore's favouri'.e ballads : — • On Lough Neagh's banks, as the fisherman strays, When...the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the Round Totoers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining." It is singular that such a large basin should... | |
 | Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society - 1867 - 916 pagine
...peaceful relics of a bye-gone age, the ring brooch, enamelled bead, or silver armlet. Lough Neagb, like nearly all the other lakes in Ireland, has its...• When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the ronnd towers of other days In the waves beneath him shining — " he but perpetuated in undying verse... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1868 - 226 pagine
...identical with the Sabine Quiritcs ; from Quiris a spear : Irish, Coir, a. spear. On Lough Xeagh's bank as the fisherman strays. "When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the Bound Towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining. Thus shall Memory often in dreams sublime... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1869 - 222 pagine
...other, as trophies of his victory.—WARNER'S Hist. Ireland, vol. i. bk. 9. On Lough Neagh's bank, as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's...declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining ; Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days... | |
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