Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Arranmore, the Island | | Arranmore | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | O ARRANMORE, loved Arranmore, | |
| How oft I dream of thee, | |
| And of those days when by thy shore | |
| I wandered young and free! | |
| Full many a path I ’ve tried since then, | 5 |
| Through pleasure’s flowery maze, | |
| But ne’er could find the bliss again | |
| I felt in those sweet days. | |
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| How blithe upon the breezy cliffs | |
| At sunny morn I ’ve stood, | 10 |
| With heart as bounding as the skiffs | |
| That danced along the flood! | |
| Or when the western wave grew bright | |
| With daylight’s parting wing, | |
| Have sought that Eden in its light | 15 |
| Which dreaming poets sing,— | |
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| That Eden where the immortal brave | |
| Dwell in a land serene, | |
| Whose bowers beyond the shining wave, | |
| At sunset, oft are seen; | 20 |
| Ah, dream, too full of saddening truth! | |
| Those mansions o’er the main | |
| Are like the hopes I built in youth,— | |
| As sunny and as vain! | | | | |
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