 Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now...  Daniel O'Connell: His Early Life, and Journal, 1795 to 1802 - Page 26by Daniel O'Connell - 1903 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1814 - 804 pages
...Ireland pre-eminently become,*! her own bard has predicted, and as ever; Christian would desire : — " Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth. And first gem of these*!" E.13BEZA'S RECOLLECTION. — It is related of Beza, one of the reformers, that when he was... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...shining metal. There it needs fire to bring it into the fluid condition ; but in our own happy island, " Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea," and in all countries of similar and even harsher climate, so long as the intense rigour of the frigid... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, Irish - 1821 - 294 pages
...thy showers, Thau the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. II. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But, oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1821 - 276 pages
...and thy showers, Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But, oh! could I love thee more deeply than No,... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 536 pages
...and thy showers, Thau the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, wi th happier brow But, oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 464 pages
...showers, Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. II. Wert thou all that I wish thee, — great, glorious, and free — First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea, — I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But, oh ! could I love thee more deeply than... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 314 pages
...showers, Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. n. Wert thou all that I wish thee, — great, glorious, and free — First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea, — I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But, oh I could I love thee more deeply than... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1825 - 830 pages
...beloved country those constitutional privileges and blessings which can alone make her what she onght to be— " Great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea." NOTICES. THERE will he a religious service on the settlement of Mr. EDWARD TAGART, as Minister of the... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 310 pages
...showers, I han the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. II. * fert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, .,• and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, I ut, oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now?... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Folk songs, Irish - 1825 - 374 pages
...and thy showers, Than the rest of the world in their sunniest hours. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now... | |
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