Lalla Rookh1842 |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 27
Сторінка 2
... meet , for the first time , his lovely bride , and , after a few months ' repose in that enchanting valley , conduct her over the snowy hills into Bucharia . The day of LALLA ROOKH's departure from Delhi was as splendid as sunshine and ...
... meet , for the first time , his lovely bride , and , after a few months ' repose in that enchanting valley , conduct her over the snowy hills into Bucharia . The day of LALLA ROOKH's departure from Delhi was as splendid as sunshine and ...
Сторінка 20
... meet ! - Soon as he heard an Arm Divine was rais'd To right the nations , and beheld , emblaz'd * In the war of the Caliph Mahadi against the Empress Irene , for an account of which vide Gibbon , vol . x . On the white flag MOKANNA's ...
... meet ! - Soon as he heard an Arm Divine was rais'd To right the nations , and beheld , emblaz'd * In the war of the Caliph Mahadi against the Empress Irene , for an account of which vide Gibbon , vol . x . On the white flag MOKANNA's ...
Сторінка 35
... meet those matchless eyes ? Quick , restless , strange , but exquisite withal , Like those of angels , just before their fall ; Now shadow'd with the shames of earth- -now crost By glimpses of the Heav'n her heart had lost ; In ev'ry ...
... meet those matchless eyes ? Quick , restless , strange , but exquisite withal , Like those of angels , just before their fall ; Now shadow'd with the shames of earth- -now crost By glimpses of the Heav'n her heart had lost ; In ev'ry ...
Сторінка 38
... meet MOKANNA at his place of prayer , A garden oratory , cool and fair , By the stream's side , where still at close of day The Prophet of the Veil retir'd to pray ; Sometimes alone - but , oftener far , with one , One chosen nymph to ...
... meet MOKANNA at his place of prayer , A garden oratory , cool and fair , By the stream's side , where still at close of day The Prophet of the Veil retir'd to pray ; Sometimes alone - but , oftener far , with one , One chosen nymph to ...
Сторінка 79
... meet at night ; By the tear that shows When passion is nigh , As the rain - drop flows From the heat of the sky ; " Whose wanton eyes resemble blue water - lilies , agitated by the breeze . " - Jayadeva . † The blue lotus , which grows ...
... meet at night ; By the tear that shows When passion is nigh , As the rain - drop flows From the heat of the sky ; " Whose wanton eyes resemble blue water - lilies , agitated by the breeze . " - Jayadeva . † The blue lotus , which grows ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
angels Arab AZIM beautiful beneath bird blest bliss blood bowers breath breath'd bright brow Bucharia burning Caliph called Cashmere charm cheek D'Herbelot dark dead dear death deep Delhi dread dream e'er earth EDWARD CORBOULD ev'n eyes FADLADEEN falchion FERAMORZ Ferdosi Ferishta fierce fire flame flowers gardens GAZNA Genii Ghebers gleam glory gold HAFED Haram hath heart Heaven HINDA holy hour hung hyæna India Indian IRAN IRAN's Khorassan King Koran Lahore Lake LALLA ROOKH light lips look look'd lov'd lover lute maid MOKANNA moonlight mountain Naphtha never night NOURMAHAL o'er pass'd PERI Persian Princess pure round ruin'd seem'd shining Shiraz shone sigh skies slave sleep smile soul sound sparkling spirit star stood sunk sweet sword Tahmuras tears thee thine thou throne Tibet Transoxiania trees turn'd twas veil warm wave weep wild wings wretch young youth ZELICA
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 377 - Oh! think what the kiss and the smile must be worth When the sigh and the tear are so perfect in bliss, And own if there be- an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. Here sparkles the nectar, that, hallow'd by love, Could draw down those angels of old from their sphere,
Сторінка 257 - Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might ! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be drugg'd with treach'ries to the brim,— With hopes, that but allure to fly, With joys, that vanish while he sips, Like Dead Sea fruit:?, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips!
Сторінка 377 - forth, What Spirit the sweets of his Eden would miss ? For, oh! if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this. The Georgian's song was scarcely mute, When the same measure, sound for sound, Was caught up by another lute, And
Сторінка 167 - Poor race of men!" said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal Fall — " Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, " But the trail of the Serpent is over them all!" She wept — the air grew pure and clear Around her, as the bright drops ran; For there's a magic in each tear Such kindly Spirits weep for man
Сторінка 156 - And, as he nearer drew and listen'd To her sad song, a tear-drop glisten'd Within his eyelids, like the spray From Eden's fountain, when it lies On the blue flow'r, which — Bramins say — Blooms nowhere but in Paradise. * " Nymph of a fair but erring line!" Gently he said—" One hope is thine. " 'Tis written in the Book of Fate,
Сторінка 212 - down thy arms of snow, As if to lift him from below! Like her to whom, at dead of night, The bridegroom, with his locks of light, * Came, in the flush of love and pride, And scal'd the terrace of his bride; — When, as she saw him rashly spring, And midway up in danger cling,
Сторінка 68 - her sword, when she would dare " Immortal deeds; but in the bracing air " Of toil,—of temperance,—of that high, rare, " Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe " Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath. " Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, — " This speck of life in time's great wilderness, " This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
Сторінка 164 - Of that Egyptian tide — whose birth Is hidden from the sons of earth Deep in those solitary woods, Where oft the Genii of the Floods Dance round the cradle of their Nile, And hail the new-born Giant's smile. * Thence over EGYPT'S palmy groves, Her grots, and sepulchres of Kings, f The
Сторінка 125 - Literary History of the Middle Ages. * The Greek fire, which was occasionally lent by the emperors to their allies. " It was," says Gibbon, " either launched in redhot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil.
Сторінка 365 - by me, Can as downy soft and as yielding be As his own white plume, that high amid death Through the field has shone—yet moves with a breath! And, oh, how the eyes of Beauty glisten, When Music has rcach'd her inward soul, Like the silent stars, that wink and listen While Heaven's eternal melodies roll.