NYC #56: Thomas Moore, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Among the representations of composers in Concert Grove, Prospect Park, is a bust on a pedestal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779–1852), who was also a musician:

 

'ERECTED BY THE
ST PATRICK SOCIETY
OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN
TO COMMEMORATE THE
CENTENNIAL ANNIVERARY
OF THE BIRTH OF
"THE POET OF ALL CIRCLES AND
THE IDOL OF HIS OWN."
       MAY 28, 1879'

The quotation comes from Moore's friend Lord Byron's description of him, and is reproduced on Moore's family grave in Bromham, Wiltshire.

The lines on the scroll in his hand are from Moore's poem 'Oh! Blame Not the Bard.'