 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 54 pàgines
...Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again. The Wordly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or...Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. XVII Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 146 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...prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lightning a little Hour or two — is gone. XV And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those... | |
 | Edward Heron-Allen - 1898 - 50 pàgines
...is a caravanserai.' " We have here a powerful suggestion of FitzGerald's 17th and 45th quatrains : Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai, Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultiin with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way. Tis but a Tent where takes his one... | |
 | 1898 - 730 pàgines
...love, joy and sorrow, are as the ' worldly hopes,' which, whether it turns to ashes or prospers — ' Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone.' And yet — so full of contradictions is art as well as life — there are inconsistencies in the book... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 564 pàgines
...winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, XVII. Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sulta'n after... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - 1898 - 396 pàgines
...still a Ruby kindles in the Vine, And many a garden by the Water blows" This, too, pleased him : " The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers y and anon, Like Snow upon the Deserfs dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone ! " Think,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 574 pàgines
...winds like Eain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone. XXVII. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1899 - 192 pàgines
..."food" and "wine," "goblet" and "lute," whence we get " thou beside me singing in the wilderness." XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone. XVII. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
 | Caxton Club - 1899 - 88 pàgines
...James, came out in the present year. A set of proofs of the illustrations form part of this exhibit. " The Worldly Hope men set their hearts upon Turns Ashes...Face, Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone." 1 6 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA. Rendered into English Verse by Edward... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1899 - 544 pàgines
...Oh, the brave music of a distant drum ! 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. I sometimes think that never blow so red The roses as where some buried Caesar bled;... | |
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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. 
