Death & Dying

Here Sleeps the Bard

by Thomas Moore 1779–1852

From National Airs

Death & Dying

Here sleeps the Bard who knew so well
All the sweet windings of Apollo's shell;
Whether its music rolled like torrents near.
Or died, like distant streamlets, on the ear.
Sleep, sleep, mute bard; alike unheeded now
The storm and zephyr sweep thy lifeless brow;--
That storm, whose rush is like thy martial lay;
That breeze which, like thy love-song, dies away!

MLA

Moore, Thomas. “Here Sleeps the Bard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/315/.

Chicago

Moore, Thomas. “Here Sleeps the Bard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/315/.

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