and The Last Rose of Summer
. He was responsible, with John Murray
, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore.
Thomas Moore was born at 12 Aungier-street in Dublin, Ireland, on 28 May 1779. over his father's grocery shop, his father being from an Irish speaking Gaeltacht
in Kerry
and his mother, Anastasia Codd, from Wexford
.
Faintly as tolls the evening chime,Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.
A Persian's heaven is easily made:'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.
I feel like one,Who treads aloneSome banquet-hall deserted,Whose lights are fled,Whose garlands dead,And all but he departed!
What though youth gave love and roses,Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.
Oh, call it by some better name,For friendship sounds too cold.
Go where glory waits thee,But while fame elates thee,Oh! still remember me!
Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.