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    Thomas R. Moore

    HER TELLING

     

    When she told me

    after she’d uncoiled the line

         with the steel stakes at the ends

         to set straight rows of peas

         clad in her denim cover-alls

         and tall rubber boots at seventy,

    after she’d tossed garden stones

         onto the long windrow

         beyond the asparagus,

    after she’d showed me

         the ants climbing the peony stalks

         to the hard buds and cupped hands

         beside the kitchen propane tanks,

    and even after years of stirring

         green tomato mincemeat

         on the yellow Glenwood

         and tugging carrots

         from the hot August soil

         and snapping off ears of corn

         and letting me p

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    Thomas Moore ()


    Life
    [sometimes called &#;Anacreon Moore&#; in his own day;] b. 28 May, 12 Aungier St., son of John Moore, a Catholic grocer and tea-merchant from Kerry, with premisses as 12 Aungier St., Dublin, and Anastasia Clodd, of Wexford - who was most ambitious for her son (&#;Born of Catholic parents, I had come into the world with the slave&#;s yoke around my neck&#;); sat on Napper Tandy&#;s knee at public dinner in ; ed. in early childhood bygd drunken scholar called Malone, who whipped the boys on his arrival, and later at Samuel Whyte Academy, where he acted and wrote (acc. to his Memoir) - and acquired an English accent; tutored in Latin bygd an usher, Donovan, of patriotic views; profited bygd learning modern languages from French emigrés at behest of his parents; taught himself to play on the piano purchased for his sister Kathleen, who was also studying harpsichord; contrib. &#;Lines to Zelia&#; and &#;A Pastoral Ballad&#; to Anthologia Hibernica, ;

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    The Maclise Portrait-Gallery/Thomas Moore

    1. ↑A lovely edition of Moore's version was published by the late John Camden Hotten, in , "with fifty-four illustrative designs by Girodet de Roussy." These exquisite drawings originally accompanied a French translation of the odes of Anacreon, made by the artist himself, and published in France shortly after his death.
    2. ↑Salmagundi; or the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstajff, Esq., and Others. London, , 8vo, p.
    3. ↑Recreations of Christopher North, i.
    4. ↑Edinburgh Review, No. lxxv.
    5. ↑English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, i vol. ed. of Byron's Poems, p.
    6. ↑The article which provoked the duel will be found in No. xvi. of the Edinburgh Review, July, , where the poet is denounced as "the most licentious of modern versifiers, and the most poetical of the propagators of impiety"; and an additional sting added to the charge by the insinuation of mere mercenary motives.
    7. ↑Life of Theodore Hook.
    8. ↑Author of Elphinstone, The
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