| Questions and answers - 1898 - 664 pages
...The original of what is perhaps the most familiar stanza— A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread— and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness. Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow — is thus found in two quatrains, numbered respectively 149 and... | |
| American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...Day Smoke I am perfectly happy ! " Old Omar gives us a more poetic version of the same thing: — " A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow I " I am not desirous in this essay of discussing the morality... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English literature - 1904 - 600 pages
...not by you," he added with a half-sigh, and idly quoted : — A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing hi the Wilderness — The word bread arrested her attention. " You are hungry 1 " she asked anxiously.... | |
| Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pages
...is forgot — And Peace to Mahmud on his golden Throne ! XII. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing m the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XIII. Some for the Glories of This World ;... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...is forgot — And Peace to Mahmud on his golden Throne ! XII. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou \ Beside me singing in the Wilderness — h, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! ^ XIII. // \ Some for the Glories of This World ; and some /... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...And Peace to Mahmiid on his golden Throne ! EUBAITAT OF XII. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XIIL Some for the Glories of This World ; and some Sigh for... | |
| Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1879 - 144 pages
...forgot — • And Peace to Mahmiid on his golden Throne ! XII. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XIII. Some for the Glories of This World ; and some Sigh for... | |
| Edward Hayes Plumptre - Bible - 1881 - 306 pages
...tranquil Epicureanism such as that of Eccl. ii. 24, v. 8, ix. 7. , "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a loaf of Bread — and thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness, Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow. Some for the Glories of this World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's... | |
| Elizabeth Williams Champney - Jews - 1881 - 316 pages
...sycamore. What shall I deem their converse ? " HALLAM. • "A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness, — Oh, wilderness were Paradise enow I" FROM THE PERSIAN. CHAPTER VIII. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.... | |
| Edward Hayes Plumptre - Bible - 1881 - 312 pages
...tranquil Epicureanism such as that of Eccl. ii. 24, v. 8, ix. 7. "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a loaf of Bread — and thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness, Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow. Some for the Glories of this World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's... | |
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