Lalla RookhH. Altemus Company, 1895 - 273 sider "Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The title is taken from the name of the heroine of the frame tale, the daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The work consists of four narrative poems with a connecting tale in prose."--Wikipedia |
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Side 13
... heaven , some pilgrim - star , That leaves its own high home , at night , To shoot to distant shrines of light . ' It comes , it comes , ' young Orian cries , And panting to Mohassan flies . Then , down upon the flowery grass Reclines ...
... heaven , some pilgrim - star , That leaves its own high home , at night , To shoot to distant shrines of light . ' It comes , it comes , ' young Orian cries , And panting to Mohassan flies . Then , down upon the flowery grass Reclines ...
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... Heaven's native maids , And crown the Elect with bliss that never fades - Well hath the Prophet - Chief his bidding done ; And every beauteous race beneath the sun , From those who kneel at Brahma's burning founts , To the fresh nymphs ...
... Heaven's native maids , And crown the Elect with bliss that never fades - Well hath the Prophet - Chief his bidding done ; And every beauteous race beneath the sun , From those who kneel at Brahma's burning founts , To the fresh nymphs ...
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... heaven - sent Chief . - - Though few his years , the West already knows Young Azim's fame ; — beyond the Olympian snows , Ere manhood darken'd o'er his downy cheek , O'erwhelm'd in fight and captive to the Greek , He linger'd there ...
... heaven - sent Chief . - - Though few his years , the West already knows Young Azim's fame ; — beyond the Olympian snows , Ere manhood darken'd o'er his downy cheek , O'erwhelm'd in fight and captive to the Greek , He linger'd there ...
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... Heaven , except the Proud One , knelt : Such the refined Intelligence that glow'd - In Moussa's frame , — and , thence descending , flow'd Through many a Prophet's breast ; - - in Issa shone , And in Mohammed burn'd ; till , hastening ...
... Heaven , except the Proud One , knelt : Such the refined Intelligence that glow'd - In Moussa's frame , — and , thence descending , flow'd Through many a Prophet's breast ; - - in Issa shone , And in Mohammed burn'd ; till , hastening ...
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... heaven , except the guiding one ! Again she smiled , nay , much and brightly smiled , But ' twas a lustre , strange , unreal , wild ; And when she sung to her lute's touching strain , ' Twas like the notes , half ecstasy , half pain ...
... heaven , except the guiding one ! Again she smiled , nay , much and brightly smiled , But ' twas a lustre , strange , unreal , wild ; And when she sung to her lute's touching strain , ' Twas like the notes , half ecstasy , half pain ...
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angel Arab Azim beauteous beautiful beneath blest bliss blood bowers brave breath bride bright brow Bucharia burning Caliph Cashmere charm cheek dark dead dear death deep Delhi dread dream e'en e'er earth eyes Fadladeen fair falchion fear Feramorz fierce fire flame flowers Gheber glance gleam glory glow Hafed Haram hath heart Heaven holy Holy Valley hour hung hyæna Iran Iran's la Péri Lahore Lalla Rookh light lips look look'd lover lute maid minarets Mokanna moonlight Moslem mountains never night Nourmahal nymph o'er once Ormuz pass'd Peri Persian poet Princess pure round ruin'd satrap seem'd shining Shiraz shone sigh skies slave sleep smile soul sound sparkling spirit star stood sunk sweet sword tears thee thine Thomas Moore thou thought throne towers turn'd twas veil voice wandering warm warrior wave weep wild wings wretch young youth Zelica
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Side 70 - soon wither'd that hung o'er the wave, But some blossoms were gather'd while freshly they shone, And a dew was distill'd from their flowers that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was . gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, An essence that breathes of it many a year
Side 237 - Yet, ere it reach the plain below, Breaks into floods, that part forever. Oh, you that have the charge of Love, Keep him in rosy bondage bound, As in the Fields of Bliss above He sits, with flowerets fetter'd round; Loose not a tie that round him clings, -Nor ever let him use his wings ; For
Side 191 - cloudier eyes to shame. But no, 'twas but the minute's dream — A fantasy, — and ere the scream Had half-way pass'd her pallid lips, A death-like swoon, a chill eclipse Of soul and sense its darkness spread Around her, and she sunk as dead. How calm, how beautiful, comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone
Side 134 - But nought can charm the luckless Peri : Her soul is sad, her wings are weary: Joyless she sees the Sun look down On that great Temple, once his own, Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time
Side 249 - of the Amra just oped by a bee ; And precious their tears as that rain from the sky, Which turns into pearls as it falls in the sea. 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
Side 122 - Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — 'Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in." Rapidly as comets run To the embraces of the Sun, Fleeter than the starry brands Flung at night from angel hands, At those dark and daring sprites Down the blue vault the Peri flies,
Side 136 - Then swift his haggard brow he turn'd To the fair child, who fearless sat, Though never yet hath day-beam burn'd Upon a brow more fierce than that, — Sullenly fierce, a mixture dire, Like thunder-clouds, of gloom and fire, In which the Peri's eye could read
Side 70 - of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song. That bower and its music I never forget ; But oft when alone, in the bloom of the year, I think — is the nightingale singing there yet? Are
Side 232 - all love and light, Visions by day and feasts by night ! A happier smile illumes each brow, With quicker spread each heart uncloses, And all is ecstasy — for now The Valley holds its Feast of Roses ; The joyous time, when pleasures pour Profusely round, and in their shower Hearts open, like the Season's Rose,
Side 129 - his own. Was safe from this foul midnight's breath. Safe in her father's princely halls, Where the cool airs from fountain falls, Freshly perfumed by many a brand Of the sweet wood from India's land, Were pure as she whose brow they fann'd. But see ! who yonder comes by stealth, This melancholy bower to seek.