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Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance (1817), Inferred

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) · 1817

InferredThe phrase 'moonlight, and music, and feeling are one' is from Thomas Moore's 'The Light of the Haram,' one of the four tales within Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance (1817). The line appears in 'The Light of the Haram' as 'where moonlight, and music, and feeling are one.' Moore's Lalla Rookh was widely read in America in the 1840s and was a common reference within Fuller's intellectual circle.

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New-York Daily Tribune

“The Celestial Empire” · November 13, 1845, November 1845 · p. 2

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“they suggest that state where "moonlight, and music, and feeling are one,”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

Inferred The phrase 'moonlight, and music, and feeling are one' is from Thomas Moore's 'The Light of the Haram,' one of the four tales within Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance (1817). The line appears in 'The Light of the Haram' as 'where moonlight, and music, and feeling are one.' Moore's Lalla Rookh was widely read in America in the 1840s and was a common reference within Fuller's intellectual circle.