 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...and danger, A home and a country remain not to me. Never again, in the green sunny bowers Where rny forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours ;...the wild-woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of Erin-go-bragh. " Erin, my country ! though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore... | |
 | Playtime - 1863 - 436 pages
...famine and danger — A home and a country remain not to me. Never again, in the green sunny bowers, Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours, Or cover my harp with the wild- woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of Erin go bragh ! " Erin, my country ! though sad and... | |
 | Richard Francis Cronnelly - Ireland - 1864 - 150 pages
...famine and danger, A home and a country remain not to me. Ah ! never again in the green sunny bowers Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours, Or cover my harp with the wild woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of Erin go Bragh. Erin, my country, though sad and forsaken,... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - Commonplace books - 1865 - 416 pages
...compass of poetry, perhaps there is nothing more touching than the allusion in the 'Exile of Erin :'— " Erin ! my country, though sad and forsaken, * In dreams...sea-beaten shore ; But alas ! in a far foreign land I am taken, And sigh for the friends I shall never see more !" ' That which so vividly remembers is the... | |
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 592 pages
...Forgetting, absolute forgetting, asserts De Quincey, is a thing not possible to the human mind. S* Erin ! my country, though sad and forsaken, In dreams...far foreign land I awaken, And sigh for the friends I shall never see more ! That which so vividly remembers is the Soul; and if in the sleep which refreshes... | |
 | Words - 1866 - 368 pages
...from famine and danger, A home and a country remain not to me. Never again, in the green sunny bowers, Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet...flowers, And strike to the numbers of " Erin go bragh ! " * Ireland t Ireland for Ever. Erin, my country ! though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...famine, or danger, A home, and a country remain not for me ; Never, again, in the green sunny bow'rs, Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet...the wild-woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of — EBIN-GO-BBAOH ! Erin ! my country ! though sad and forsaken, In dreams, I revisit thy sea-beaten... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...from famine and danger ; A home and a country remain not to me. Never again, in the green sunny bowers Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet...hours, Or cover my harp with the wild-woven flowers, Or strike to the numbers of Erin go bragh. ' Erin, my country ; though sad and forsaken, In dreams... | |
 | 1866 - 524 pages
...from famine and danger, A home and a country remain not to me. Never again, in the green sunny bowers, Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours, Or cover my harp with the wild woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of Erin go bragh ! But, alas ! in a far foreign land... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1866 - 450 pages
...response to the remembered song of their own loved bard : " Never again, in the green eunny bowers Where my forefathers lived, shall I spend the sweet hours, Or cover my harp with the wild- woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of Erin go Braugh ! " There are many incidents on record,... | |
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Sad is my fate! said the heart-broken stranger, The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee; But I have no refuge from famine and danger, — A home and a country remain not to me. Never again, in the green sunny bowers, Where my forefathers lived , shall... 
