 | 1902 - 784 pàgines
...He opened the little book, scarcely knowing that he did, and his eyes fell upon the sixteenth verse: "The worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns...Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone." He read it twice, then sat by the window for a time, looking out, unseeingly, upon the sunlight of... | |
 | 1902 - 696 pàgines
...the interests of the non-motoring public on the King's Highway. Thornycroft's motor waggon. 414 HP HE Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. FITZGERALD, Omar Khayydm XIV. [The copyright of these verses belongs to Messrs. Macmillan &• Co.,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1900 - 154 pàgines
...alternate night and day, How Sultan after Sultdu with his pomp Abode his destin'd hour and went his way. The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes...desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. And those who husbanded the golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like rain,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 350 pàgines
...winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again. xvn The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. xvin Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,... | |
 | Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, Sir Percy Sykes - 1902 - 648 pàgines
...there are three or four heavy falls of snow, which soon melts in the plains, as Omar Khayyam sings : " The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or so — is gone." At the same time, but for the mountains, in which are the " treasures of the snow... | |
 | Percy Molesworth Sykes - 1902 - 638 pàgines
...there are three or four heavy falls of snow, which soon melts in the plains, as Omar Khayyam sings : " The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes...the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or so — is gone." At the same time, but for the mountains, in which are the " treasures of the snow... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 pàgines
...are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again. xvi The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon (B' Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow...Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.* xvn Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 312 pàgines
...buried once, Men want dug up again. xvi The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon (6) Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone.* xvn Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,... | |
 | Willard Clark Gore - 1902 - 92 pàgines
...— riches, honor, and pleasure — with "the worldly hope men set their hearts upon," which — " Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone." It does not appear, however, that this dissatisfaction had any sentimental or aesthetic interest for... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 288 pàgines
..."Tear, and its Treasure 10 on the Garden throw." xrv The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon (4) Turns Ashes — or it 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... | |
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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. 
