 Such the gay splendour, the luxurious state, Of caliphs old, who on the Tigris' shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store ; And verse, love, music, still the garland wore : When Sleep was coy, the...  The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 145by James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tygris' shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store ; And verse, love, music...: When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, 375 Cheered the lone midnight with the muse's lore ; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 608 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tygris's shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store; And verse, love, music,...: When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, Cheered the lone midnight with the Muse's lore; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tygris's shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store; And verse, love, music,...: When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, Cheered the lone midnight with the Muse's lore; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tigris' shore, In mighty Bagdad, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store ; And verse, love, music...: When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, Cheered the lone midnight with the Muse's lore ; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tigris' shore, In mighty Bagdad, populous and great, Held their bright court, C O K~ d;^G } ۿ q ban I, in waiting there, Cheered the lone midnight with the Muse's lore ; Composing music bade his... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 pages
...verse, love, music, still the garland wore : When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, 375 Cheered the lone midnight with the muse's lore; Composing...fair, And music lent new gladness to the morning air. XLHI Near the pavilions where we slept, still ran Soft tinkling streams, and dashing waters fell, 38°... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tigris' shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store ; And verse, love, music,...: When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, 375 Cheered the lone midnight with the muse's lore ; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tigris' shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store; And verse, love, music,...: When sleep was coy, the bard, in waiting there, 375 Cheered the lone midnight with the muse's lore; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 554 pages
...And verse, love, music still the garland wore : When sleep was coy, the bard in waiting there Cheered the lone midnight with the muse's lore ; Composing...XLIII Near the pavilions where we slept, still ran Soft- tinkling streams, and dashing waters fell, /• And sobbing breezes sighed, and oft began (So... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 556 pages
...Caliphs old, who on the Tygris' shore, In mighty Bagdat, populous and great, Held their bright court, where was of ladies store ; And verse, love, music...wore : When sleep was coy, the bard in waiting there Cheered the lone midnight with the muse's lore ; Composing music bade his dreams be fair, And music... | |
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