To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... , those who stood before The Tavern shouted- " Open then the Door ! You know how little while we have to stay , And , once departed , may return no more . ” From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám H CHAPTER II OTEL MAUD was to be my home.
... , those who stood before The Tavern shouted- " Open then the Door ! You know how little while we have to stay , And , once departed , may return no more . ” From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám H CHAPTER II OTEL MAUD was to be my home.
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... Omar's historic rendezvous . Now I could understand the poetic influence that stirred the students of ancient Persia . There is some- thing alluring in the tender evening air of Bagdad . I began quoting " Omar Khayyam " and wondered no ...
... Omar's historic rendezvous . Now I could understand the poetic influence that stirred the students of ancient Persia . There is some- thing alluring in the tender evening air of Bagdad . I began quoting " Omar Khayyam " and wondered no ...
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... Omar Khayyam's " quatrains . Having satisfied my every wish for sight - seeing , I now turned to the more pragmatic occupation of dis- covering facts and figures concerning the new nation of Iraq . This country is an initial experiment ...
... Omar Khayyam's " quatrains . Having satisfied my every wish for sight - seeing , I now turned to the more pragmatic occupation of dis- covering facts and figures concerning the new nation of Iraq . This country is an initial experiment ...
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Joe Mitchell Chapple. CHAPTER IV Haunts of the Author of the " Rubaiyat " as a Roving Student . " Where Omar smote ' is bloomin ' lyre " ( Kipling ) IV Now the New Year reviving old Desires , The.
Joe Mitchell Chapple. CHAPTER IV Haunts of the Author of the " Rubaiyat " as a Roving Student . " Where Omar smote ' is bloomin ' lyre " ( Kipling ) IV Now the New Year reviving old Desires , The.
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... Cup , and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling ; The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly and Lo ! the Bird is on the Wing . From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I CHAPTER IV N the bracing air of the next.
... Cup , and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling ; The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly and Lo ! the Bird is on the Wing . From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I CHAPTER IV N the bracing air of the next.
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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.