 On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus,...  Poems - Page 147by Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1852 - 376 pages
...legends of these imaginative people, " On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays When the clear cool eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining : Thus shall memory often in dreams sublime Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing,... | |
 | Eliot Warburton (i.e. Bartholomew Elliott George) - Egypt - 1852 - 310 pages
...in Lough Neagh — "By this sea's dark shore, as the wanderer strays, When the soft, bright eve 's declining. He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining;" and, on the only island in this sea, the remains of columns and other ruins are said to have been detected... | |
 | W. Adam - Buxton (England) - 1852 - 96 pages
...exist for the benefit of its inhabitants and the stranger. PART IV. HADDON HALL. " On Haddon's Banks, as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the Towers of other days In the Wye beneath him shining." APPROACH TO HADDON, ENTRANCE TOWER, FIRST QUADRANGLE,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Ballads, English - 1852 - 212 pages
...the sword of the other, as trophies of his victory."— WARNER'S History of Ireland, vol. i. book ix. On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve 's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining ; Thus shall... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...like the Atlantis of Plato, was submerged. In allusion to this story, Moore gracefully says : '•' On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When...declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the waves beneath him shining." (It }s worthy of remark that many of the islands in the Atlantic Ocean... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - Ireland - 1853 - 186 pages
...commemorated one of its marvels, and not without authority from sober History— * " On Lough Neagh's banks, as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's...Towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining." The legend, indeed, is by no means confined to this Ulster lake; but Lough Neagh has the distinction,... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - Wensleydale (England) - 1854 - 380 pages
...Pickering-Lythe, are both dedicated to St. Martin. Was he, in the now-confused legend, the mysterious guest ? " On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When...towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining ! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over ; Thus sighing,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1854 - 670 pages
...aristocratic halls, we have the word of Moore : — " On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining. The princely proprietors of those submerged possessions, who so suddenly sunk with their sinking fortunes,... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - Europe - 1854 - 458 pages
...aristocratic halls, we have the word of Moore : — " On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining." The princely proprietors of those submerged possessions, who so suddenly sunk with their sinking fortunes,... | |
 | Grace Greenwood - Europe - 1854 - 462 pages
...Moore : — " On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When clear, cold eve's declining, » lie sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining." The princely proprietors of those submerged possessions, who so suddenly sunk with their sinking fortunes,... | |
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