 | Margaret Mayo - 1996 - 164 pàgines
...least began attractively, and the consistent fulfilment of their Omarian faith. Whether at Naishipur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The I .caves of Life keep falling one by one. Unlike Omar, however, these people are unconscious of the... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1997 - 342 pàgines
...glance, the word "Naishapur" seems resistant to being grafted onto an inhospitable metrical pattern: Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with...drop. The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Both the second and third syllables of "Naishapur" are long, but it is the third that is stressed in... | |
 | William Gerber - 1997 - 252 pàgines
...even while we are waxing, our life is waning." One of Omar Khayyam's appealing stanzas reads: (758) Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with...drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), in his lines "To His Coy Mistress," lamented: (759) But at my back I always... | |
 | James A. Athanasou - 1997 - 126 pàgines
...1.75) + (3 x 1.20) x (2x1.50) 2. What is the average number of letters in the words of this verse? Whether at Naishapur or Babylon Whether the cup with...drop, The leaves of life keep falling one by one. A approximately 4. 1 on average B approximately 5 on average C approximately 4.5 on average D approximately... | |
 | Kathy Sammis - 2002 - 150 pàgines
...Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with...drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Directions: Answer the following questions. You may use the back of this sheet if you need more writing... | |
 | John Herbert Roper - 2003 - 364 pàgines
...argument, whether the Reverend Tom Long's bitter draught or Professor Horace Williams's sweet cup, "the wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, / The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one," and "Thee and Me" would soon be gone as well, a pity to lose even that brief moment together. Such... | |
 | Arthur John Arberry - 2008 - 296 pàgines
...Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter —and the Bird is on the Wing. VIII Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with...drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. IX Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? And this... | |
 | Omar - 2005 - 109 pàgines
...Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing, VII! Whether at NaisMpur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run....drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. IX Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? And this... | |
 | Margaret Mayo - 2006 - 157 pàgines
...least began attractively, and the consistent fulfilment of their Omarian faith. Whether at Naishapiir or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,...drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. Unlike Omar, however, these people are unconscious of the estimate they put upon pleasure, for they... | |
 | Michael Kurland - 2007 - 320 pàgines
...all of us — foreigners, visitors for a time to this world, and then we pass beyond. As Omar said, 'The Wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop, / The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.' " The older woman looked at the younger and her faced cracked into what might have been a smile. "I... | |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. 
