 | Charles De Berard Mills - 1882 - 282 pàgines
...almost purely nihilistic, it is plain that he deserves recognition among writers of the first class. The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes,...it prospers; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusky face, Lighting a little hour or two, was gone. Ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears To.day... | |
 | Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton - 1886 - 328 pàgines
...seemed to muse with Omar Khayyam thus : The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns to ashes—or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—was gone ! and tossed aside his triumphs with indifference. Whatever the part he had to personate,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pàgines
...World I blow : "At once the silken Tassel of my Purse "Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." XIV The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. xv And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1925 - 900 pàgines
...words that are equally appropriate to the son: "Indeed, he ever seemed to muse with Omar Khayyam thus: '"The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns...desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.'" Ill FOR at the bottom of the man's heart, no matter what fame beguiled him or what outward... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pàgines
...winds like Rain, ' Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, ^ XVI Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
 | 1888 - 296 pàgines
...the world I blow, 'At once the silken tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw;' The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns ashes,...the Desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—was gone. Think—in this battered Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 138 pàgines
...I blow : " At once the silken Tassel of my Purse " Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." XIV The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...— or it prospers ; and anon, [/ Like Snow upon the Deserts dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. XV And those who husbanded the Golden... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 136 pàgines
...blow : " At once the silken Tassel of my Purse " Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw." XIV TJie Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert 's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. XV And those who husbanded the Golden... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1888 - 476 pàgines
...us suddenly so serious." Omar says: '' The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes—or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone. For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his vintage rolling time has prest.... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1889 - 416 pàgines
...skies of Naishapur, which through the transmuting genius of Fitzgerald have been best made known to us: "The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns...ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Dasert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone." It were perhaps a little out of place,... | |
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone. 
