Lalla Rookh: An Oriental RomanceLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - 405 sider The daughter of the Mughal emperor is engaged to the young king of Bactria. She goes to meet him, but falls in love with a poet she meets on the way. As Lalla Rookh enters the palace of her bridegroom she is delighted to find that the poet of her affection was none other than the prince to whom she was engaged. |
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... wave aloft in morning's beam The milk - white plumage of their helms , they seem Like a chenar - tree grove , when winter throws O'er all its tufted heads his feathering snows . Between the porphyry pillars , that uphold The rich ...
... wave aloft in morning's beam The milk - white plumage of their helms , they seem Like a chenar - tree grove , when winter throws O'er all its tufted heads his feathering snows . Between the porphyry pillars , that uphold The rich ...
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... wave When beckoning to their bowers th ' Immortal Brave . - " But these , " pursued the Chief , " are truths sublime , " That claim a holier mood and calmer time " Than earth allows us now ; this sword must first - “ The darkling prison ...
... wave When beckoning to their bowers th ' Immortal Brave . - " But these , " pursued the Chief , " are truths sublime , " That claim a holier mood and calmer time " Than earth allows us now ; this sword must first - “ The darkling prison ...
Side 18
... welcome ! -thou hast yet " Some tasks to learn , some frailties to forget , " Ere the white war - plume o'er thy brow can wave ; — " But , once my own , mine all till in the grave ! " The Pomp is at an end , the crowds are 18 LALLA ROOKH .
... welcome ! -thou hast yet " Some tasks to learn , some frailties to forget , " Ere the white war - plume o'er thy brow can wave ; — " But , once my own , mine all till in the grave ! " The Pomp is at an end , the crowds are 18 LALLA ROOKH .
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... wave at morn , Bless'd not the waters , as they murmur'd by , With holier scent and lustre , than the sigh And virgin glance of first affection cast Upon their youth's smooth current , as it pass'd ! But war disturb'd this vision far ...
... wave at morn , Bless'd not the waters , as they murmur'd by , With holier scent and lustre , than the sigh And virgin glance of first affection cast Upon their youth's smooth current , as it pass'd ! But war disturb'd this vision far ...
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... wave , But not to point the harbour which might save . Hours of delight and peace , long left behind , With that dear form came rushing o'er her mind ; But oh ! to think how deep her soul had gone In shame and falsehood since those ...
... wave , But not to point the harbour which might save . Hours of delight and peace , long left behind , With that dear form came rushing o'er her mind ; But oh ! to think how deep her soul had gone In shame and falsehood since those ...
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