WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave... Lalla Rookh - Page 295by Thomas Moore - 1817 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...ROOKH.] WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As...summer eve throws, Like a bride, full of blushes, when lingering to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes ! Or to see it by moonlight, -when... | |
| Shirley Hibberd - 1864 - 310 pages
...the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest the world ever gave ; Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave ? " Moore's "Light of the Harem." The supposed association of the rose and the bulbul, or nightingale,... | |
| James Shirley Hibberd - 1864 - 326 pages
...the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest the world ever gave ; Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave ? " Moore's " Light of the Harem." The supposed association of the rose and the bulbul, or nightingale,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pages
...reader. One of his water-color drawings of the Lake of Cashmere reminds us at once of Moore's lines : " Oh ! to see it at sunset, when warm o'er the Lake Its splendor at parting a Summer-eve throws — Like a bride full of blushes when ling'ring to take A last... | |
| 1865 - 426 pages
...earth ever gave,* lie temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the lore-lighted eves that hung over their wave ? Oh! to see it at sunset, — when...splendour at parting a summer eve throws, Like a bride, foil of blushes, when lingering to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes ! — When... | |
| Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...Cashmere. " Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As...lake, Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws." But to pursue the path travelled by Moore's sweet " Bookh," on her romantic love-erraiul, it is necessary... | |
| Barry Gray - 1866 - 338 pages
...said, "I have heard of the Vale of Cashmere, — 1 With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave ; but I don't know much about its shawls." " Now, I do," said my wife, " and the shawls made in that... | |
| 1867 - 276 pages
...Cashmere. " Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As...lake, Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws." But to pursue the path travelled by Moore's sweet " Lalla Rookh," on her romantic love-errand, it is... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...Rookh.] WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As...Lake, Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws, . . . When the shrines through the foliage are gleaming half shown, And each hallows the hour by some... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...colour. •Who has not heard of the vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over the wave? Here the music of prayer from a minaret swells, Here the Magian his urn, full of perfume,... | |
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