Lalla RookhGall & Inglis, 1859 - 172 páginas |
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... sweet music , fraught With twice th ' aërial sweetness it had brought ! Yet now he comes , -brighter even than he E'er beam'd before , -but , ah ! not bright for thee ; No - dread , unlook'd for , like a visitant From th ' other world ...
... sweet music , fraught With twice th ' aërial sweetness it had brought ! Yet now he comes , -brighter even than he E'er beam'd before , -but , ah ! not bright for thee ; No - dread , unlook'd for , like a visitant From th ' other world ...
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... Sweet glances for the flash Of Grecian wild - fire , and Love's gentle chains , For bleeding bondage on BYZANTIUM's plains . Month after month , in widowhood of soul Drooping , the maiden saw two summers roll Their suns away - but , ah ...
... Sweet glances for the flash Of Grecian wild - fire , and Love's gentle chains , For bleeding bondage on BYZANTIUM's plains . Month after month , in widowhood of soul Drooping , the maiden saw two summers roll Their suns away - but , ah ...
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... sweet . But now that Shape , which had appall'd her view , That Semblance - oh how terrible , if true ! Which came across her frenzy's full career With shock of consciousness , cold , deep , severe , As when , in northern seas , at ...
... sweet . But now that Shape , which had appall'd her view , That Semblance - oh how terrible , if true ! Which came across her frenzy's full career With shock of consciousness , cold , deep , severe , As when , in northern seas , at ...
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... bloom , " Excels ten thousand cold ones in the tomb . " Nay , nay , no frowning , sweet ! -those eyes were made " For love , not anger - I must be obey'd . " " Obey'd ! -tis well - yes , I deserve VEILED PROPHET OF KHORASSAN . 31.
... bloom , " Excels ten thousand cold ones in the tomb . " Nay , nay , no frowning , sweet ! -those eyes were made " For love , not anger - I must be obey'd . " " Obey'd ! -tis well - yes , I deserve VEILED PROPHET OF KHORASSAN . 31.
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... sweet mortality ; Gay , flickering death - lights shone while we were wed , " And , for our guests , a row of goodly Dead , " ( Immortal spirits in their time , no doubt , ) " From reeking shrouds upon the rite look'd out ! " That oath ...
... sweet mortality ; Gay , flickering death - lights shone while we were wed , " And , for our guests , a row of goodly Dead , " ( Immortal spirits in their time , no doubt , ) " From reeking shrouds upon the rite look'd out ! " That oath ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Acbar angels Arab AZIM beautiful beneath bird blest bliss blood bowers breath breath'd bright brow burning Caliph called Cashmere charm cheek dark dead dear death deep Delhi dread dream e'er earth ev'n eyes FADLADEEN falchion FERAMORZ Ferishta fire flame flowers gardens GAZNA Genii Ghebers gleam glory gold golden HAFED Haram hath heart heaven holy hour hung hyæna India Indian IRAN's Khorassan King Koran Lake LALLA ROOKH light lips look look'd lov'd lover lute maid minarets MOKANNA moonlight Moslem mountain Naphtha never night NOURMAHAL o'er pass'd PERI Persian poet Princess pure round ruin'd Scott Waring seem'd sherbets shining Shiraz shone sigh skies slave sleep smile soul sound sparkling spirit star stood sunk sweet sword Tahmuras tears thee thine thou thought throne Tibet towers tree turn'd Twas veil warm wave wild wings wretch young youth ZELICA
Pasajes populares
Página 90 - Go wing thy flight from star to star, '. From world to luminous world, as far " As the universe spreads its flaming wall ; " Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, " And multiply each through endless years, " One minute of Heaven is worth them all!
Página 100 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Página 96 - Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all...
Página 98 - That I can live, and let thee go, Who art my life itself? — No, no — When the stem dies, the leaf that grew Out of its heart must perish too ! Then turn to me, my own love, turn, Before like thee I fade and burn ; Cling to these yet cool lips, and share The last pure life that lingers there...
Página 96 - No voice, well known through many a day, To speak the last, the parting word, Which, when all other sounds decay, Is still like distant music heard. That tender farewell on the shore Of this rude world, when all is o'er, Which cheers the spirit, ere its bark Puts off into the unknown dark.
Página 93 - Be this," she cried, as she wing'd her flight, "My welcome gift at the Gates of Light. Though foul are the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood like this, For Liberty shed, so holy is, It would not stain the purest rill, That sparkles among the Bowers of Bliss...
Página 103 - Syria's thousand minarets ! The boy has started from the bed Of flowers where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels, with his forehead to the south, Lisping th...
Página 89 - Mid flowers that never shall fade or fall: Though mine are the gardens of earth and sea, And the stars themselves have flowers for me, One blossom of heaven outblooms them all!
Página 151 - Whose liquid flame is born of them ! When, 'stead of one unchanging breeze, There blow a thousand gentle airs, And each a different perfume bears, As if the loveliest plants and trees Had vassal breezes of their own To watch and wait on them alone, And waft no other breath than theirs : When the blue waters rise and fall, In sleepy sunshine mantling all ; And even that swell the tempest leaves Is like the full and silent heaves Of lovers' hearts when newly blest, Too newly to be quite at rest.
Página 122 - Playful she turned, that he might see The passing smile her cheek put on ; But when she marked how mournfully His eyes met hers, that smile was gone ; And, bursting into heartfelt tears, 'Yes, yes...