Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Rulers; Statesmen; Warriors | | “O, breathe not his name” | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | Robert Emmet
O, BREATHE not his name! let it sleep in the shade, | |
| Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid; | |
| Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, | |
| As the night-dew that falls on the grave o’er his head. | |
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| But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, | 5 |
| Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps; | |
| And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, | |
| Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. | | | | |
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