Works, Bind 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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... ' to whomsoever this fortune falls , he shall share it ' equally with the rest , and reserve no pre - eminence for himself . Be it so , ' we both replied , and on those ' terms we mutually pledged our words . Years rolled 2 OMAR KHAYYÁM ,
... ' to whomsoever this fortune falls , he shall share it ' equally with the rest , and reserve no pre - eminence for himself . Be it so , ' we both replied , and on those ' terms we mutually pledged our words . Years rolled 2 OMAR KHAYYÁM ,
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... rest . I cannot see reason to alter my opinon , formed as it was more than a dozen years ago when Omar was first shown me by one to whom I am indebted for all I know of Oriental , and very much of other , literature . He admired Omar's ...
... rest . I cannot see reason to alter my opinon , formed as it was more than a dozen years ago when Omar was first shown me by one to whom I am indebted for all I know of Oriental , and very much of other , literature . He admired Omar's ...
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... Rest ; Oh , the brave Music of a distant Drum ! XIII Look to the Rose that blows about us ― " Lo , " Laughing , " she says , " into the World I blow : " At once the silken Tassel of my Purse " Tear , and its Treasure on the Garden throw ...
... Rest ; Oh , the brave Music of a distant Drum ! XIII Look to the Rose that blows about us ― " Lo , " Laughing , " she says , " into the World I blow : " At once the silken Tassel of my Purse " Tear , and its Treasure on the Garden throw ...
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... Rest . XXII And we , that now make merry in the Room They left , and Summer dresses in new Bloom , Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend , ourselves to make a Couch - for whom ? XXIII Ah , make the most of what we yet may ...
... Rest . XXII And we , that now make merry in the Room They left , and Summer dresses in new Bloom , Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend , ourselves to make a Couch - for whom ? XXIII Ah , make the most of what we yet may ...
Side 31
... rest . XXIII And we that now make merry in the Room They left , and Summer dresses in new bloom , Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend- ourselves to make a Couch - for whom ? XXIV Ah , make the most of what we yet may ...
... rest . XXIII And we that now make merry in the Room They left , and Summer dresses in new bloom , Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend- ourselves to make a Couch - for whom ? XXIV Ah , make the most of what we yet may ...
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ABSÁL Æsop AGAMEMNON Argos Bacon Baghdad beauty better blood blow breath call'd called Carlyle CASSANDRA CHIG Chivalry CHORUS clay CLYTEMNESTRA Crabbe dark Divine Doctor doth drink Dust Earth Euphranor Ev'n eyes Fate Father Fitzgerald friends genius Glory Gods Goethe Háfiz hand head heart Heaven Honour human Jámí King Lexilogus light lips live look Lord Lycion Malik Shah man's matter Menelaus mind Moon Moral Muezzin Naishápúr nature never Nicolas night Nishapur Omar Khayyám once Pantheism passion perhaps Persian Phidippus Plato Poems Poet Poet's Polonius poor Priam Quatrain remember rose Rubáiyát SALÁMÁN says scarce SHAH Song Soul Stanza story Súfi Sultan suppose sweet tell thee thine things thou thought Throne thyself tion tomb Troy true truth turn'd verse Whinfield Wine wise woman young Youth Zeus
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Side 59 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Side 434 - ... certain it is that, whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Side 73 - 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!
Side 48 - You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of t he Vine to Spouse.
Side 20 - 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.
Side 76 - The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Side 362 - Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Side 33 - 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!
Side 429 - A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high above those other noble parts of invention, elocution and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.
Side 410 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.