To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... Tree and the Golden Water . At night the familiar pages of the story of Aladdin and Prince Agib came to mind as I read mayhap by the uncertain light of a dying camp fire in the midst of the stunning silence of the Desert or under a sput ...
... Tree and the Golden Water . At night the familiar pages of the story of Aladdin and Prince Agib came to mind as I read mayhap by the uncertain light of a dying camp fire in the midst of the stunning silence of the Desert or under a sput ...
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... trees of Araby . Old as the hills ; old as the winds that fan the desert sands from Basra to Barca , her features scarred but unsullied by the hand of Time that laid low the Eter- nal City , Bagdad was old when the mythical story of ...
... trees of Araby . Old as the hills ; old as the winds that fan the desert sands from Basra to Barca , her features scarred but unsullied by the hand of Time that laid low the Eter- nal City , Bagdad was old when the mythical story of ...
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... is associated with America in Iraq because George Washington and the cherry tree is as familiar to them as the " Arabian Nights " is to American youth . Returning to Hotel Maud , I crossed the courtyard and 34 TO BAGDAD AND BACK.
... is associated with America in Iraq because George Washington and the cherry tree is as familiar to them as the " Arabian Nights " is to American youth . Returning to Hotel Maud , I crossed the courtyard and 34 TO BAGDAD AND BACK.
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... trees , palaces and buildings . It did not seem that we were alone on the extensive plains of sand . In my mind there were dreams of Bagdad that had not been realized , but with heavy eyes now and then open- ing on the shaft of light ...
... trees , palaces and buildings . It did not seem that we were alone on the extensive plains of sand . In my mind there were dreams of Bagdad that had not been realized , but with heavy eyes now and then open- ing on the shaft of light ...
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... trees and mansions , with here and there a park . Crossing a sea of sand , covering the distance from New York to Cleveland , we swept on without being " put off at Buffalo . " All seemed cool and quiet at the magic hour of 52 TO BAGDAD ...
... trees and mansions , with here and there a park . Crossing a sea of sand , covering the distance from New York to Cleveland , we swept on without being " put off at Buffalo . " All seemed cool and quiet at the magic hour of 52 TO BAGDAD ...
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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.