Irish Literature

The Kiss by Thomas Moore

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Give me, my love, that billing kiss
I taught you one delicious night,
When, turning epicures in bliss,
We tried inventions of delight.

Come, gently steal my lips along,
And let your lips in murmurs move, -
Ah, no! - again - that kiss was wrong -
How can you be so dull, my love?

'Cease, cease!' the blushing girl replies -
And in her milky arms she caught me -
'How can you thus your pupil chide;
You know' twas in the dark you taught me!'

Thomas Moore is one of Ireland's foremost poets and his words make
perfect inscriptions for Valentine cards, birthday gifts for a special person or when you want to say something special

Thomas Moore also wrote other beautiful poems and each one should be read for its clarity and intensity

 

 

 

 

 

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Thomas Moore - "Did Not"

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Irish Love Poem
"Did Not"

This beautiful Irish love poem by the poet Thomas Moore explores feelings that can bring uo to a point where we cannot return from. A beautiful inscription for a card or any gift that you want to pesonalise.

 

 

Did Not
by Thomas Moore

'Twas a new feeling - something more
Than we had dared to own before,
Which then we hid not;
We saw it in each other's eye,
And wished, in every half-breathed sigh,
To speak, but did not.

 

She felt my lips' impassioned touch -
'Twas the first time I dared so much,
And yet she chid not;
But whispered o'er my burning brow,
'Oh, do you doubt I love you now?'
Sweet soul! I did not.

Warmly I felt her bosom thrill,
I pressed it closer, closer still,
Though gently bid not;
Till - oh! the world hath seldom heard
Of lovers, who so nearly erred,
And yet, who did not.

~Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)

 

 

As an Irish poet, singer and song writer of ballads, and entertainer, Moore is best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstral Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer.