Persian Portraits: A Sketch of Persian History, Literature and PoliticsB. Quaritch, 1887 - 170 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abu Sa'id Abu Talib Khan Abul Ahmad Akbar Almori Amir Nasr Anwari appears Arabic Asadi Ata-begs Attar Azraki Babar beauty Bukhara called celebrated Changez Khan chapter composed court Dakiki Dehli dervish died Diwan Doulat Doulat Shah English Fables of Bidpay Firdausi ghazal greatest Gulistan Hafiz Hatifi Heaven Hirat India Isfahan Jalal Jalal-uddin Rumi Jami Khakani Khurasan Khusro Khwaja king known language Mahmud of Ghazni Malik Shah Mansûr Maulana Mesnevi Mirza Mughals Muhammad mystic poet Nadir Shah Naishapur Nausherwan night Nizami Oriental period Persian history Persian literature Persian Poetry Persian poets poems poetical poetry praise prince Prose Writers Rashid-uddin reign religion romantic Rudaki Sa'di Safwi dynasty Saljukides Samanian Samarkand Sanai Sanjar says scholars Shahnama Shaikh Shiraz story style Sufi Sultan Mahmud Taimur thee Thou thousand couplets thousand verses throne tion translated Ulugh Beg Umar Khayam vizier Waez Watwat written wrote Yusaf Zalikha
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 66 - With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow ; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd — " I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Seite 66 - Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain— This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Seite 66 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Seite 66 - There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I could not see: Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee There was — and then no more of Thee and Me.
Seite 43 - Praise, praise to Mahmud, who of like renown, In battle or the banquet, fills the throne; Lord of the realms of Chin and Hindustan, Sovereign and Lord of Persia and Turan, With his loud voice he rends the flintiest ear; On land a tiger fierce, untouched by fear, And on the wave, he seems the crocodile That prowls amidst the waters of the Nile. Generous and brave, his equal is unknown; In deeds of princely worth he stands alone. The infant in the cradle lisps his name; The world exults in Mahmud's...
Seite 64 - The lovely moon for thirty days Spreads radiant glory from afar: Her charms for ever night displays Crowned, like a queen, with many a star: Her seal-bearer is Heav'n, a band Of planets wait on her command. Day can but paint the skies with blue, Night's starry hosts amaze the view. Man measures time but by the moon; Night shrouds what day reveals too soon. Day is with toil and care oppressed, Night comes, and with her, gentle rest. Day, busy still, no praise can bring, All night the saints their...
Seite 55 - SWEET maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, • Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand.
Seite 55 - Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say : • Tell them, their Eden cannot show i A stream so clear as Rocnabad, A bower so sweet as Mosellay.
Seite 51 - Lady, shall I tell thee where Nature seems most blest and fair, Far above all climes beside ? 'Tis where those we love abide, And that little spot is best Which the loved one's foot hath pressed.
Seite 52 - One day, as I was in the bath, a friend of mine put into my hand a piece of scented clay. I took it, and said to it, Art thou musk or ambergris, for I am charmed with thy perfume...