University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

expand sectionI, II. 
expand sectionIII, IV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVI, VII. 
collapse sectionVIII, IX. 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
collapse section 
 I. 
expand sectionII. 
 III. 
 IV. 
 V. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVII. 
 VIII. 
 IX. 
 X. 
expand sectionXI. 
expand section 
expand section 
expand sectionX. 

The remaining expense, trouble, risk—and, alas!
My poor copyright too—into other hands pass;
And my friend, the Head Dev'l of the “County Gazette”
(The only Mecænas I've ever had yet),
He who set up in type my first juvenile lays,
Is now set up by them for the rest of his days;
And while Gods (as my “Heathen Mythology” says)

353

Live on nought but ambrosia, his lot how much sweeter
To live, lucky dev'l, on a young lady's metre!