 | 1888 - 498 pàgines
...should close 1 The nightingale that in the branches sang Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows 1 Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp...scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire 1" This view of life, looking upon it as a... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 138 pàgines
...sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows / LXXIII Ah Love ! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re -mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire ! LXXIV Ah, Moon of my Delight who know' st no wane, The... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pàgines
...unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate! xcix. Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp...Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire! c. Yon rising Moon that looks for us again—•... | |
 | 1889 - 722 pàgines
...love, could you and I with fate conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits, and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire 1 That is Fitzgerald. ANDREW LANG. The 'Donna.' 0. H. Longman II. Edgar and Maud II. ' EEE 5s. AB 11.... | |
 | Henrik Ibsen - 1890 - 140 pàgines
...would not be best, as the Persian poet says, " To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, . . . to shatter it to bits — and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire." To an American audience it would seem as though Ibsen should speak with greater certainty of a sympathetic... | |
 | 1912 - 352 pàgines
...yearnings. It is man's constant struggle, his everlasting thought. Who has not said with old Omar? — " Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp...and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?" Is man, therefore, not subject to the law of natural selection? It seems to me that he is — limiting... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1891 - 138 pàgines
...Boll of Fate, ^— And make the stern Eecorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate ! » XCIX. Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp...entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Ee-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire ! 42 RVBAIYAT OF OMAB KHAYYAM. Yon rising Moon that looks... | |
 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1891 - 410 pàgines
...the rose-bud to pieces. His lips began to move, and with low and exquisite intonations he declaimed, "Ah, love, could you and I with Him conspire To grasp...scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Remould it nearer to our hearts' desire?" The passionate energy with which he thrust... | |
 | Henry Doty Maxson - 1893 - 344 pàgines
...HEALTH OR DISEASE? In Fitzgerald's translation of that wonderful Persian poet Omar Khayyam, we read: "Ah love, could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits, and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire!" It has been said to be... | |
 | Edward Caird - 1893 - 424 pàgines
...insatiable hearts to the unknown God, who is in some inconceivable way to find means to satisfy them — "Ah, love, could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of things entire, Would we not shatter it to bits, — and then Remould it nearer to the heart's desire."1 But, though in this... | |
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Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire! 
