 | David Foxton - 2000 - 164 pàgines
...cheers then 'freeze'. The Spirit character enters stage left and stands stage left.) Spirit: The Wordly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is gone.' (Break the 'freeze': the scene is now the bridge of the Titanic. The cast move offstage to leave only... | |
 | Ben Bova - 2002 - 396 pàgines
...Are we obsessed, too? What difference? \\tiat difference does any of it make? How did Kayyam put it? The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty- face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. What difference do our own obsessions make? They turn to ashes or prosper. Then they melt like snow... | |
 | William Barclay - 1957 - 300 pàgines
...for it is founded on the love of God.' The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam speaks wistfully of human hopes: The Worldly Hope men set their hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is gone. When our hope is in God, it cannot turn to dust and ashes. When our hope is in God, it cannot be disappointed.... | |
 | Michael Shterenshis - 2002 - 180 pàgines
...half of the fourteenth century. TIMUR IN JEWISH SOURCES The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upons Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like snow...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is gone. (Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam) If you read ten or fifteen general history books on Jewish history, starting... | |
 | Arapeta Awatere - 2003 - 548 pàgines
...literally dropped dead in my boots. I chuckled when I wrote this for I felt Omar Khayyam was mocking me: The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is gone. 'Any how' ended my letter 'the world is what we make it. If we twist it, it will twist us. If we treat... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pàgines
...Book of Verse — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness And Wilderness is Paradise enow. . . The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. . . Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears Today of past Regrets and future Fears Tomorrow? — Why,... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 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...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no... | |
 | Robert C. Allen - 2004 - 276 pàgines
...receiving the equivalent of millions of dollars of free publicity. "Shooting Star" Christopher B. Hemmeter The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face, Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. — Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat 156 Christopher Hemmeter arrived in Hawai'i in 1962 after attending... | |
 | Arthur John Arberry - 2008 - 296 pàgines
...I blow: And 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...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 Rain, Alike to... | |
 | Omar - 2005 - 109 pàgines
...Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again. xvn The Worldly Hope men set their Hearte upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like...Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. XVIII Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,... | |
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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. 
