The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Lalla RookhLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841 |
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... Fire - worshippers its main attraction and inte- rest . That it was my intention , in the con- cealed Prince of Ormuz , to shadow out some impersonation of this feeling , I take for granted from the prophetic words supposed to be ad ...
... Fire - worshippers its main attraction and inte- rest . That it was my intention , in the con- cealed Prince of Ormuz , to shadow out some impersonation of this feeling , I take for granted from the prophetic words supposed to be ad ...
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... Fire - worshippers of Persia , and their haughty Moslem masters . From that moment , a new and deep interest in my whole task took possession of me . The cause of tolerance was again my inspiring theme ; and the spirit that had spoken ...
... Fire - worshippers of Persia , and their haughty Moslem masters . From that moment , a new and deep interest in my whole task took possession of me . The cause of tolerance was again my inspiring theme ; and the spirit that had spoken ...
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... surely can regret , that the poet , in his magnificent catastrophe , has forgotten , or boldly and most happily violated , * The Fire - worshippers . the precept of Zoroaster , above noticed , which held a 2 THE SIXTH VOLUME . xix.
... surely can regret , that the poet , in his magnificent catastrophe , has forgotten , or boldly and most happily violated , * The Fire - worshippers . the precept of Zoroaster , above noticed , which held a 2 THE SIXTH VOLUME . xix.
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... fire , especially by that which glowed upon their altars . " Having long lost , I fear , most of my Eastern learning , I can only cite , in defence of my catastrophe , an old Oriental tradition , which relates , that Nimrod , when ...
... fire , especially by that which glowed upon their altars . " Having long lost , I fear , most of my Eastern learning , I can only cite , in defence of my catastrophe , an old Oriental tradition , which relates , that Nimrod , when ...
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Thomas Moore. CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME . PREFACE TO THE SIXTH VOLUME Page V LALLA ROOKH . Dedication 3 The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan Paradise and the Peri 19 156 The Fire - Worshippers 203 LALLA ROOKH . ΤΟ SAMUEL ROGERS , ESQ . May.
Thomas Moore. CONTENTS OF THE SIXTH VOLUME . PREFACE TO THE SIXTH VOLUME Page V LALLA ROOKH . Dedication 3 The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan Paradise and the Peri 19 156 The Fire - Worshippers 203 LALLA ROOKH . ΤΟ SAMUEL ROGERS , ESQ . May.
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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...