The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Lalla RookhLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841 |
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... , when told by the late Sir James Mackintosh , that he was once asked by Colonel W - s , the historian of British India , " whether it was true that Moore had - never been in the East ? " " Never , VI . a THE SIXTH VOLUME . xvii.
... , when told by the late Sir James Mackintosh , that he was once asked by Colonel W - s , the historian of British India , " whether it was true that Moore had - never been in the East ? " " Never , VI . a THE SIXTH VOLUME . xvii.
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... India through the delightful valley of Cashmere , rested for a short time at Delhi on his way . He was entertained by Aurung- zebe in a style of magnificent hospitality , worthy alike of the visiter and the host , and was afterwards ...
... India through the delightful valley of Cashmere , rested for a short time at Delhi on his way . He was entertained by Aurung- zebe in a style of magnificent hospitality , worthy alike of the visiter and the host , and was afterwards ...
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... on that clear and beau- titul water , and gave it the fanciful name of Motee Talah , ' the Lake of Pearls , ' which it still retains . " Wilks's South of India . those hidden , embowered spots , described by one from 12 LALLA ROOKH .
... on that clear and beau- titul water , and gave it the fanciful name of Motee Talah , ' the Lake of Pearls , ' which it still retains . " Wilks's South of India . those hidden , embowered spots , described by one from 12 LALLA ROOKH .
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... Indian Anti- quities . " 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 princesses wear golden ...
... Indian Anti- quities . " 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 princesses wear golden ...
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... in love with Chrishna , who continues to this hour the darling God of the Indian women . " Sir W. Jones , on the Gods of Greece , Italy , and India . - gion of his worshippers into love . His dress was 16 LALLA ROOKH .
... in love with Chrishna , who continues to this hour the darling God of the Indian women . " Sir W. Jones , on the Gods of Greece , Italy , and India . - gion of his worshippers into love . His dress was 16 LALLA ROOKH .
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Page 218 - Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die.
Page 78 - And a dew was distill'd from their flowers that gave All the fragrance of summer, when summer was gone. Thus memory draws from delight, ere it dies, , An essence that breathes of it many a year ; Thus bright to my soul, as 'twas then to my eyes, Is that bower on the banks of the calm Bendemeer...
Page 78 - There's a bower of roses by BENDEMEER'S' stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Page 180 - 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 daylight sets, Is rising sweetly on the air, From Syria's thousand minarets...
Page 176 - 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.
Page 177 - Of ruin'd shrines, busy and bright, As they were all alive with light; — And, yet more splendid, numerous flocks Of pigeons, settling on the rocks, With their rich restless wings, that gleam Variously in the crimson beam Of the warm west — as if inlaid With brilliants from the mine, or made Of tearless rainbows, such as span The unclouded skies of Peristan.
Page 156 - 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 ! " Though sunny the Lake of cool Cashmere, With its plane-tree Isle reflected clear, And sweetly the founts of that Valley fall ; Though bright are the waters of...
Page 169 - Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
Page 179 - mid the roses lay, She saw a wearied man dismount From his hot steed, and on the brink Of a small imaret's rustic fount Impatient fling him down to drink. Then swift his haggard brow he turn~d To the fair child, who fearless sat, Though never yet hath daybeam burn'd Upon a brow more fierce than that...
Page 180 - Upon a brow more fierce than that, — Sullenly fierce — a mixture dire, Like thunder-clouds of gloom and fire, In which the Peri's eye could read Dark tales of many a ruthless deed ; The...