Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Moyle, the River | | The Song of Fionnuala | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | SILENT, O Moyle, be the roar of thy water, | |
| Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose, | |
| While, murmuring mournfully, Lir’s lonely daughter | |
| Tells to the night-star her tale of woes. | |
| When shall the swan, her death-note singing, | 5 |
| Sleep, with wings in darkness furled? | |
| When will heaven, its sweet bell ringing, | |
| Call my spirit from this stormy world? | |
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| Sadly, O Moyle, to thy winter-wave weeping, | |
| Fate bids me languish long ages away; | 10 |
| Yet still in her darkness doth Erin lie sleeping, | |
| Still doth the pure light its dawning delay. | |
| When will that day-star, mildly springing, | |
| Warm our isle with peace and love? | |
| When will heaven, its sweet bell ringing, | 15 |
| Call my spirit to the fields above? | | | | |
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