Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].1868 |
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... Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very con- siderable Figures in their Time and Country : one of whom tells the Story of all Three . This was Nizam ul Mulk , Vizyr to Alp Arslan the Son , and Malik Shah the ...
... Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very con- siderable Figures in their Time and Country : one of whom tells the Story of all Three . This was Nizam ul Mulk , Vizyr to Alp Arslan the Son , and Malik Shah the ...
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... story : ' I often used to hold conversations with my ' teacher , Omar Khayyám , in a garden ; and one day he said ... story of 1 The Rashness of the Words , according to D'Herbelot , consisted in being so opposed to those in the ...
... story : ' I often used to hold conversations with my ' teacher , Omar Khayyám , in a garden ; and one day he said ... story of 1 The Rashness of the Words , according to D'Herbelot , consisted in being so opposed to those in the ...
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... Story from of Old Down Man's successive generations roll'd Of such a clod of saturated Earth Cast by the Maker into Human mould ? XLII . And not a drop that from our Cups we throw 15 On the parcht herbage but may steal below To quench ...
... Story from of Old Down Man's successive generations roll'd Of such a clod of saturated Earth Cast by the Maker into Human mould ? XLII . And not a drop that from our Cups we throw 15 On the parcht herbage but may steal below To quench ...
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... Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us , and as Prophets burn'd , Are all but Stories , which , awoke from Sleep They told their fellows , and to Sleep return'd . LXIX . Why , if the Soul can fling the 14 RUBÁIYÁT OF.
... Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us , and as Prophets burn'd , Are all but Stories , which , awoke from Sleep They told their fellows , and to Sleep return'd . LXIX . Why , if the Soul can fling the 14 RUBÁIYÁT OF.
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... Story , as told in one of the most famous Poems of Persia , written by Amír Khus- raw all these Sevens also figuring ( according to Eastern Mysticism ) the Seven Heavens , and perhaps the Book itself that Eighth , into which the ...
... Story , as told in one of the most famous Poems of Persia , written by Amír Khus- raw all these Sevens also figuring ( according to Eastern Mysticism ) the Seven Heavens , and perhaps the Book itself that Eighth , into which the ...
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Page 6 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Page 22 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 23 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 3 - 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 ! XII " How sweet is mortal Sovrainty ! " — think some ; Others " How blest the Paradise to come!
Page 17 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed : And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Page 5 - And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom...
Page 7 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing ; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Page 29 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 16 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 4 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.