Lalla Rookh: An Oriental RomanceLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 278 páginas |
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... voice deep and dread As that of MONKER , waking up the dead - From their first sleep - so startling ' twas to both- Rung through the casement near , Thy oath ! thy oath ! " " The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan , p . 94 . ! ZELICA ...
... voice deep and dread As that of MONKER , waking up the dead - From their first sleep - so startling ' twas to both- Rung through the casement near , Thy oath ! thy oath ! " " The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan , p . 94 . ! ZELICA ...
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... voices . " ― Maurice's Indian Antiquities . " The Arabian courtesans , like the Indian women , have little golden bells fastened round their legs , neck , and elbows , to the sound of which they dance before the King . The Arabian prin ...
... voices . " ― Maurice's Indian Antiquities . " The Arabian courtesans , like the Indian women , have little golden bells fastened round their legs , neck , and elbows , to the sound of which they dance before the King . The Arabian prin ...
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... voices rung : the warriors ' swords Were pointed up to heaven ; a sudden wind In the ' open banners play'd , and from behind Those Persian hangings , that but ill could screen The Haram's loveliness , white hands were seen Waving ...
... voices rung : the warriors ' swords Were pointed up to heaven ; a sudden wind In the ' open banners play'd , and from behind Those Persian hangings , that but ill could screen The Haram's loveliness , white hands were seen Waving ...
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... voice , which thrill'd like ALLA's own ! The Young all dazzled by the plumes and lances , The glittering throne , and Haram's half - caught glances ; The Old deep pondering on the promis'd reign Of peace and truth ; and all the female ...
... voice , which thrill'd like ALLA's own ! The Young all dazzled by the plumes and lances , The glittering throne , and Haram's half - caught glances ; The Old deep pondering on the promis'd reign Of peace and truth ; and all the female ...
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... voice like his , the changes of his face In thine reflected with still lovelier grace . Like echo , sending back sweet music , fraught With twice the ' aërial sweetness it had brought ! Yet now he comes , -brighter than even he E'er ...
... voice like his , the changes of his face In thine reflected with still lovelier grace . Like echo , sending back sweet music , fraught With twice the ' aërial sweetness it had brought ! Yet now he comes , -brighter than even he E'er ...
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Acbar angels Arab AZIM beautiful beneath bird blest bliss blood bowers breath breath'd bride bright brow Bucharia burning Caliph called Cashmere charm cheek D'Herbelot dark dead dear death deep Delhi dread dream e'er earth EDWARD CORBOULD ev'n eyes FADLADEEN falchion FERAMORZ Ferdosi Ferishta fire flame flowers gardens Genii Ghebers glory gold HAFED Haram hath heart Heaven holy hour hung hyæna India Indian IRAN IRAN's Khorassan King Koran Lahore Lake LALLA ROOKH light lips look look'd lov'd lover lute maid MOKANNA moonlight mountain Naphtha never night NOURMAHAL o'er pass'd PERI Persian poet Princess pure round seem'd shining Shiraz shone sigh skies slave sleep smile soul sound sparkling spirit star stood sunk sweet sword Tahmuras tears thee thine thou throne Tibet Transoxiania trees turn'd twas veil wandering warm wave weep wild wings wretch young youth ZELICA
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Página 258 - His country's curse, his children's shame. Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame. May he, at last, with lips of flame On the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh...
Página 167 - Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
Página 179 - Soften'd his spirit,) look'd and lay, Watching the rosy infant's play : Though still, whene'er his eye by chance Fell on the boy's, its lurid glance Met that unclouded, joyous gaze, As torches, that have burnt all night Through some impure and godless rite, Encounter morning's glorious rays. But hark ! the vesper-call to prayer, As slow the orb of day-light sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, From Syria's thousand minarets...
Página 163 - Oh ! if there be, on this earthly sphere, " A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, ' 'Tis the last libation Liberty draws " From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause...
Página 168 - Just then beneath some orange trees, Whose fruit and blossoms in the breeze Were wantoning together, free, Like age at play with infancy — Beneath that fresh and springing bower, Close by the lake she heard the moan Of one who at this silent hour, Had thither...
Página 164 - And sleek'd her plumage at the fountains Of that Egyptian tide, — whose birth Is hidden from the sons of earth, Deep in those solitary woods, Where oft the Genii of the Floods Dance round the Cradle of their Nile, And hail the New-born Giant's smile!
Página 182 - Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Página 75 - 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 the roses still bright by the calm Bendemeer...
Página 271 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity...
Página 160 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...