 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 pages
...well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the Goods they sell. LXXII. Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's...sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! L XXIII. Ah Love ! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...jogged each other, ' Brother ! brother ! Now for the porter's shoulder-knot a-creaking ! '" * " Alas ! that spring should vanish with the rose ! That youth's...the fountain yield One glimpse, if dimly, yet indeed revealed, Toward which the fainting traveller might spring, As springs the trampled herbage of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...each other, ' Brother ! brother ! Now for the porter's shoulder-knot a-creaking ! ' " • " Alas ! that spring should vanish with the rose ! That youth's...the fountain yield One glimpse, if dimly, yet indeed revealed, Toward which the fainting traveller might spring. As springs the trampled herbage of the... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pages
...Honour — Well, I wonder often what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. xcvi. Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose !...sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! XCVII. Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse — if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1876 - 608 pages
...enjoyments of this little life, so rapidly passing from his grasp, with no light on the " BEYOND :" — " Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose !...sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows I Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse — if dimly, yet indeed, revealed, To which... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...Honour — Well, I wonder often what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. XCVI. Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That...sang. Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! xcvn. Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse — if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Poetry - 1878 - 282 pages
...' Alas that Spring should vanish with the rose ! ' 'Tis the high-piping voice of Omar cries : — ' That youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close...sang, Ah ! whence and whither flown again, who knows ? ' Who knows ? Who knows ? Like the funereal clang Of ghastly brazen belfries out of tune, From age... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 196 pages
...burden too great for him to bear, — bursts out in these verses with yet more distinctness : — " Would but the desert of the fountain yield One glimpse — if dimly, yet indeed revealed, To which the fainting traveller can spring, As springs the trampled herbage of the field... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...Honour — Well, I wonder often what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. xcvi. Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose !...sang, Ah "whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! xcvn. Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse — if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1879 - 144 pages
...Honour — Well, I wonder often what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell. xcvi. Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose !...sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows ! XCVII. Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse — if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd,... | |
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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! 
