Thomas Moore
- Poems
- When He, Who Adores Thee (en)
- Alas! How Light A Cause May Move (en)
- All That's Bright Must Fade (en)
- As Slow Our Ship (en)
- Breathe Not His Name (en)
- When Cold In The Earth (en)
- Dreams (2) (en)
- Drink to Her (en)
- Those Evening Bells (en)
- False Woman (en)
- Farewell! But Whenever You Welcome The Hour (en)
- When First I Met Thee (en)
- Flow On, Thou Shining River (en)
- Should Those Fond Hopes (en)
- The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls (en)
- Her Picture (en)
- Ill Omens (en)
- They Know Not My Heart (en)
- The Lake Of The Dismal Swamp (en)
- The Last Rose Of Summer (en)
- On Leaving Some Friends (en)
- Think Not My Spirits Are Always Light (en)
- Linda to Hafed (en)
- The Light Of Other Days (en)
- Love Hurts (en)
- Love and Reason (en)
- The Meeting Of The Waters (en)
- In The Morning Of Life (en)
- I'd Mourn The Hopes (en)
- On Music (en)
- A Night Thought (en)
- No, Not More Welcome (en)
- Thee, Thee, Only Thee (en)
- Remember Him (en)
- Remember Thee (en)
- Sail On, Sail On (en)
- I Saw From The Beach (en)
- Serenity (en)
- Sic Juvat Perire (en)
- Whene'er I See Those Smiling Eyes (en)
- The Snake (en)
- Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded (en)
- Sweet Lady (en)
- Take Back The Virgin Page (en)
- It Is Not The Tear At This Moment Shed (en)
- A Temple to Friendship (en)
- The Tear (en)
- The Wonder (en)
- Timid Tear (en)
- To Julia (en)
- When I Loved You (en)
- Why I Loved You (en)
- Women Are All The Same (en)
- While Thou Art Nigh (en)
- Translations
- Goddess Diane (en)
- Fare Thee Well, Perfidious Maid (en)
- I Fought With Love (en)
- The Goblet (en)
- Happiness Lost (en)
- The Lovely Lesbian (en)
- Why Does She So Long Delay? (en)
- Love, the Reaper (en)
- Love's Reins (en)
- Loving is a Painful Thrill (en)
- When the Sad Word (en)
- Still Like Dew In Silence Falling (en)
- The Swallow (en)
Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 - February 25, 1852) was an Irish poet, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Last Rose of Summer. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College, and studied law at the Middle Temple in London. It was, however, as a poet, translator, balladeer and singer that he found fame. His work soon became immensely popular and included The Harp That Once Through Taras Halls, The Minstrel Boy, Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and others.
Moore was far more than a balladeer, however. He had major success as a society figure in London, and in 1803 was appointed registrar to the Admiralty in Bermuda. From there, he travelled in Canada and the USA. He returned to England and married an actress, Elizabeth "Bessy" Dyke, in 1811. Moore had expensive tastes, and, despite the large sums he was earning from his writing, soon got into debt, a situation which was exacerbated by the embezzlement of money by the man he had employed to deputise for him in Bermuda. Moore became liable for the £6000 which had been illegally appropriated. In 1819, he was forced to leave Britain -- in company with Lord John Russell -- and live in Italy until 1822, when the debt was finally paid off. Some of this time was spent with Lord Byron, whose literary executor Moore became. He was much criticised later for allowing himself to be persuaded into destroying Byron's memoirs. Moore did, however, edit and publish Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life (1830).
He finally settled in Wiltshire, and became a novelist and biographer as well as a successful poet. He received a state pension, but his personal life was dogged by tragedy.
Other Works
- Lalla Rookh: an Oriental Romance (1817) (narrative poem)
- The Fudge Family in Paris (1818) (satire)
- The Loves of the Angels (1823) (narrative poem)
- The Epicurean (1827) (novel)
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