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 1 Pre     |      Persia", For the life of the poet, see V. Hammer; Defrémery
 2 Pre     |           before the birth of the poet, Hulagu, a grandson of the
 3 Pre     |    reading the Koran aloud with a poet of his court, and caused
 4 Pre     |          for liberality. He was a poet, after the fashion of kings,
 5 Pre     |           almost certain that the poet had died before 1393. Timur
 6 Pre     |        was probably educated. The poet Jami says that he does not
 7 Pre     |       seated venture to study the poet. Whatever were his beginnings,
 8 Pre     |        great and holy!" cries the poet, "every man who is a servant
 9 Pre     |        these from the most famous poet of the age: "May the ball
10 Pre     |           for Hafiz, in which the poet gave lectures on the Koran,
11 Pre     |          for him; "but," says the poet politely, "no favour of
12 Pre     |          throne." Mansur held the poet in high esteem. There is
13 Pre     |        some sixty years after the poet's death, Sultan Baber conquered
14 Pre     |      which holds the bones of the poet, and his prophecy that his
15 Pre     |           art but the glass," the poet concludes, "his is the face
16 Pre     |           had been enough for our poet, but I have a shrewd suspicion
17 Pre     |    admitted that the words of the poet carry a different conviction
18 Pre     |           dealing with a mystical poet is to read into him so-called
19 Pre     |           all is said and done, a poet's true kingdom. Of a different
20 Pre     |         the utterances of a great poet, the imaginative interpreter
21 Pre     |           leaning of the Oriental poet towards a picturesque diction (
22 Pre     |          and victorious.~"Let the poet place upon her fingers the
23 Pre     |   mysticism worthy of an Oriental poet. St. Francis addresses his
24 Pre     |         so strong a hold upon the poet's imagination that he welded
25 Pre     |      world, loom to us, under the poet's influence, as big and
26 Pre     |         any self-respecting court poet would feel it incumbent
27 Pre     |       that my appreciation of the poet is that of the Western.
28 II(*)   |           as a description of the poet's quest for love. In an
29 III(*)  |          man and God are one. The poet's reputation has gained
30 V(*)    |          in repartee: he sent the poet away a richer man by some
31 IX(*)   |          Persian exaggeration the poet must needs write to his
32 XVIII(*)|           with desire to become a poet, and insisted upon keeping
33 XXI(*)  |           Allah Inju, to send the poet a sufficient sum to pay
34 XXI(*)  |          arose, and persuaded the poet that no advantages he might
35 XXI(*)  | generosity he sent the defaulting poet a further present, consisting
36 XXIV(*) |         of the latter's fame as a poet, and partly because Hafiz
37 XXIV(*) |           some means of doing the poet an injury, nor was it long
38 XXX(*)  |           Sheikh Sa'di, the first poet of his time. Close at hand
39 XXXII(*)|         imagery used by a Western poet: "Those crisped snaky golden