To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... XXII IRREPRESSIBLE URGE OF INTEREST IN ANCIENT LANDS XXIII A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PERSIA OF OMAR KHAYYAM XXIV THE CURTAIN FALLS ON MEMORIES OF Bagdad 265 · 277 • 285 293 . A PERSONAL PROLOGUE WHILE HILE I was still a small.
... XXII IRREPRESSIBLE URGE OF INTEREST IN ANCIENT LANDS XXIII A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PERSIA OF OMAR KHAYYAM XXIV THE CURTAIN FALLS ON MEMORIES OF Bagdad 265 · 277 • 285 293 . A PERSONAL PROLOGUE WHILE HILE I was still a small.
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... . " Curtained with selections from the " Rubáiyát of Omar Khay- yam " are the chapters of this book . I was amazed to realize [ iv ] how quatrains of this immortal mystic poem fitted appropriately to A PERSONAL PROLOGUE.
... . " Curtained with selections from the " Rubáiyát of Omar Khay- yam " are the chapters of this book . I was amazed to realize [ iv ] how quatrains of this immortal mystic poem fitted appropriately to A PERSONAL PROLOGUE.
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... Omar at the Naishapur shrine , where I seemed to catch the spirit of the " ancient of days . " Without further musing concerning the purpose of this modest book which aspires to no high place as a history , authentic refer- ence or ...
... Omar at the Naishapur shrine , where I seemed to catch the spirit of the " ancient of days . " Without further musing concerning the purpose of this modest book which aspires to no high place as a history , authentic refer- ence or ...
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... with flies , was a gruesome sight and a reminder of the prevailing poverty of the Orient . It was all so different from my conception of the land of Ur . CHAPTER II ' Twas in Bagdad that the Student Omar TO BAGDAD AND BACK 9.
... with flies , was a gruesome sight and a reminder of the prevailing poverty of the Orient . It was all so different from my conception of the land of Ur . CHAPTER II ' Twas in Bagdad that the Student Omar TO BAGDAD AND BACK 9.
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Joe Mitchell Chapple. CHAPTER II ' Twas in Bagdad that the Student Omar Khayyam sang His Immortal " Rubaiyat " I Awake ! for Morning in the Bowl of Night.
Joe Mitchell Chapple. CHAPTER II ' Twas in Bagdad that the Student Omar Khayyam sang His Immortal " Rubaiyat " I Awake ! for Morning in the Bowl of Night.
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Africa American ancient Arabian Nights Arabic Bagdad baksheesh banks began Beirut Bethlehem blue Blue Nile boys British Cairo called camel caravans centuries Chaldea CHAPTER Christ Christian civilization color consul Damascus declared desert distance donkeys dreams dust East Egypt Egyptian England English eyes feel feet gazed glory hand Holy Land hour human hundred Iraq Jeff Jerusalem Jews Khartoum King live looked Mesopotamia miles millions Mohammed Mohammedan morning Moslem mosque nation native never Nile o'clock Omar Khayyám Omdurman once Orient palace Palestine Pasha passed Persia picture pyramids race railroad region reminded river Rubáiyát of Omar ruins sand scene seemed sheik Shullas Siddik Esee smiled Sowash stars stood story streets Sudan Sudanese Syrian Syrian Desert Temple Thou thought thousand Tigris tiny tion told tomb tower trees valley visited Wady Halfa walls women wonder Zaghloul
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Página 148 - 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.
Página 16 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Página 98 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 296 - Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me - in vain!
Página 111 - 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!
Página 296 - 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!
Página 84 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Página 136 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 250 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA LIX Listen again.
Página 84 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.