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1 Pre | father whether he had killed 1000 men with his own hand. "
2 Pre | good pleasure " (Phil. ii. 12).]~when some of his disciples
3 Pre | poem written in the year 1317, and therefore contemporary
4 Pre | submit again to his rule. In 1335, a year or two after these
5 Pre | Shiraz between the years 134o and 1350, has left a description
6 Pre | between the years 134o and 1350, has left a description
7 Pre | up a formidable power. In 1352, determined to put an end
8 Pre | first patron of Hafiz.~From 1353 to 1393, when Timur conquered
9 Pre | Isfahan. Four years later, in 1357, he was given up to Mahommad,
10 XXXIX(*) | throne of Bengal in the year 1367, fell sick. During his illness
11 Pre | into Northern Persia. In 1382 Shah Shudja sent a propitiatory
12 Pre | variously given as 1388, 1389, 1391, and 1394, but it seems
13 XXXVII(*)| in his book on Serpents (1607), remarks that "the juice
14 Pre | Journal des Savants for 1821 and 1822.]~as far as to
15 Pre | des Savants for 1821 and 1822.]~as far as to Ali himself,
16 Pre | the Journal Asiatique for 1844 and 1845, Malcolm's "History
17 Pre | Journal Asiatique for 1844 and 1845, Malcolm's "History of Persia,"
18 XXXV(*) | in the spring of the year 1853. I suspect from internal
19 Pre | the Journal Asiatique for 1858; Sir Gore Ouseley and Daulat
20 Pre | The Muzaffaride, with Only 3000 or 4000 men, twice charged
21 III(*) | it the following entry: '400,000 pieces of gold, the
22 Pre | Muzaffaride, with Only 3000 or 4000 men, twice charged into
23 XXVI(*) | came to the throne in B.C. 464. He was the grandson of
24 XXVI(*) | the Persian throne in A.D. 591. It was Khusro Parwiz who
25 Pre | among the Persians." Browne. 73]~in the East as men leading
26 XVI(*) | stanza, see Introduction, p. 74.~Sidreh and Tuba are two
27 Pre | ruled over Persia since 750. For the next 200 years
28 Pre | Mosalla, give the number 791, that is 1389 of our era.
29 Pre | I have slain must reach 800."~After his death, Shah
30 XXVI(*) | to the Persian throne in A.D. 591. It was Khusro Parwiz
31 II(*) | royale qui vient de Dieu, l'abandonna; un serpent à trois~tétes,
32 Pre | branch of the family of Abbas living in Cairo, members
33 I(*) | quotation from the works of the abhorred Yezid at the head of his
34 XXX | north wind blows!~There abideth the angel Gabriel's peace~
35 XXXVII | riches of this field~Make no abiding, let the goblet's fire~Consume
36 XXXIII | sun,~Setting the stones ablaze. Would'st hide the stain~
37 I(*) | This prince was held in abomination by the Persian Shi'ites,
38 XXIII | glance, her eyes~With an abounding loveliness did shine.~Then
39 Pre | Pharaoh to Moses, Nimrod to Abraham, because they say that though
40 V(*) | increasing that Joseph (the absolute existence, the real beloved,
41 XXXIV | grain of corn! Wherefore~Absolve and pardon him that turns
42 Pre | him enunciating one of the abstruser of the Sufi doctrines: "
43 Pre | carry asceticism to the absurd extremes enjoined by the
44 XXV | answers: At an end!~Autumn's abundance, creeping Autumn's mirth,~
45 XL(*) | suspended by chains over an abyss. It was they who taught
46 Pre | come, their desire shall be acceptable unto God."[3] There is a
47 V(*) | to their conscience for accepting a pay lawfully earned, and
48 Pre | at the time of Mansur's accession-perhaps he had accompanic imur s
49 Pre | for India; but a series of accidents befell him, he lost heart
50 Pre | accession-perhaps he had accompanic imur s retreating army. "
51 Pre | captors, their mother, who accompanied them, lifted her veil and
52 V(*) | their beauty and musical accomplishments, and furnished minstrels
53 Pre | letters, and was anxious to be accounted a rival to the King of Delhi
54 Pre | noble youths." But such accounts as these are not entirely
55 IX | little will be the gain~That accrues to the Sheikh for his lawful
56 XXIV(*) | Resurrection, basing the accusation upon the last couplet of
57 XXIV(*) | found what he sought. He accused Hafiz of denying the Resurrection,
58 Pre | not see, you who dare to acknowledge the truth, that you cannot
59 Pre | in a ceaseless political activity; for all his visionary journeys
60 Pre | souls, fugitives from the actual, may dream themselves away"--
61 Pre | the annihilation of the actual--to forget that they have
62 Pre | and what to him was so acutely real is to many of us merely
63 Pre | endowed with wonderful acuteness of vision, had penetrated
64 XXV(*) | their truth. The Persian added, however, that the study
65 Pre | Oriental poet. St. Francis addresses his Redeemer in terms not
66 Pre | their principles to the adepts who had attained to perfect
67 Pre | hardly be said to form an adequate guide to conduct. The Sufis,
68 Pre | bound to give an outward adhesion to it, but in their hearts
69 Pre | provinces of their empire were administered by governors in their name.
70 XXX(*) | constructed with taste and admirably arranged; each trade has
71 Pre | des précautions que les admirateurs du poète étaient obligés
72 XXI(*) | ventures to refuse them admission into their houses, and even
73 XXXI | the star-pale narcissus to adore.~The long-drawn tyranny
74 II(*) | crut Dieu et voulut être adoré. Aussitôt, le Fari Yazdan,
75 Pre | of the art of many hues, adorn her with the sandal-wood
76 Pre | strung together for the adornment of his contemporaries,"
77 XXXI | petals blush and blow;~Hither adown the path of Spring she came,~
78 XXI(*) | persuaded the poet that no advantages he might reap from the journey
79 II(*) | Colabah related his whole adventure: that, as he was seeking
80 Pre | Hafiz would have been better advised if he had less frequently
81 Pre | Western countries. Like the Æneid, the Divan of Hafiz is consulted
82 XXVI | heart's ease,~Travelling afar; what though Love's countenance~
83 XXI(*) | invitation. He wound up his affairs in his native town, using
84 XXI(*) | the guise of poverty, and affecting abstinence and piety, were
85 IV | vain.~Art thou with grief afflicted, with the smart~Of absence,
86 VIII | Except thy road through affliction pass,~None may reach the
87 Pre | the holy trees, they could afford you no protection." Nor
88 Pre | Listen to the advice of an Afghan singer who wrote his Ars
89 Pre | Translation of the Kilidi Afghani," by T. C. Plowden.~I fear
90 XVIII | fount,~Help one who toils afoot-the horsemen mount~And hasten
91 XXVI(*) | reign that Rustum overcame Afrasiab's arrny, killing his own
92 XXIX | vain,~The desert blooms again--oh, weep no more!~What though
93 Pre | they were five centuries ago, and they could gain nothing
94 IV | thee dies,~Hiding love's agony from curious eyes,~Ah, not
95 Pre | after this fashion into agreement with their views.~Beautiful
96 XXVI(*) | supposed to have been the Ahasuerus of Scripture who married
97 Pre | they approve of artificial aids for the subduing of consciousness,
98 VIII(*) | Dolles,~Les sires et les fils aînés?~Où autant de leurs gens
99 XXX(*) | Shiraz, the pass of Allahu Akbar.~The angel Gabriel, the
100 XXXIX(*) | He was a magician and an alchemist. Pharaoh employed him as
101 XXXVI | ask not him to teach thee alchemy~Whose treasure-house is
102 Pre | the Neo-Platonic school of Alexandria and to the Christian religion,
103 Pre | force of circumstances the Alides were placed in opposition
104 Pre | difficulties lay in reconciling the all-powerfulness of God with man's consciousness
105 XXX(*) | from Shiraz, the pass of Allahu Akbar.~The angel Gabriel,
106 Pre | semble bien que l'explication allégorique est le plus souvent un fruit
107 Pre | servants of the Vizir useful allies against the officers of
108 Pre | metaphor;~"The bells of alliteration like bangles upon her feet,
109 XL(*) | man, however, they were allowed to choose whether they would
110 Pre | gold is not always without alloy," and he was not one of
111 Pre | the poems he is frequently alluded to as the second Assaf (
112 Pre | the Sufis declare that he alludes to moments of ecstatic union
113 XXX(*) | completely veiled, give much in alms, and repair three times
114 XXVIII | hold thy sweet red lips aloof,~Dowered, like Jesus's breath,
115 XXX | the north wind laden with ambergris--~Oh, come to Shiraz when
116 XI(*) | type of the wildest human ambition, the other as a part of
117 Pre | before Mahommad while the Amir was engaged in reading the
118 XI(*) | And to what does it all amount? he asks. Only to this:
119 Pre | directions is too often "amphora coepit institui, currente
120 XXXIV(*) | chap. ii.~Tradition has amplified and adorned this story.
121 XXI(*) | necks they wore charms and amulets, with beads and coloured
122 XXXV(*) | in the Divan: " Yàd bàd àn ruz-i-gàràn, yàd bàd!" A
123 XXVIII | alone, God favouring us!~Andwhen she like a waning moon did
124 Pre | work is mainly a string of anecdote-I have been told that Lutfallah'
125 XIX(*) | of cruelty. Just as the Anglo-Saxons prayed to be delivered from
126 XXXIX(*) | began to low, and became animated; for such was the virtue
127 Pre | division. Every man who has annihilated the body and is entirely~[
128 XXXVII(*)| roots which signify the annihilator of poison. Murray gives
129 Pre | The uncle was not a little annoyed; he bade Hafiz finish the
130 Pre | the garment of repentance annually into the fire of Spring.
131 XXV | blights~My hope? The omen answers: At an end!~Autumn's abundance,
132 XXXVII(*)| goat; also from various antelopes, &c. The lapis bezoar occidentale,
133 XXXVII(*)| writers in the sense of an antidote, chiefly to snake bites.
134 XXXVII(*)| various substances held as antidotes, especially to a concretion
135 Pre | his pupil Sayyed Kasim el Anwar, and the Divan of Hafiz
136 XXI(*) | and even into the women's apartments, where those who go stark-naked,
137 Pre | the following exquisite apologue: "There came one and knocked
138 XVIII(*) | undismayed by the terrible apparition of a fierce lion which was
139 Pre | the other. But, then, our appetites are not the same.~The tendency
140 XXXVII(*)| remarks that "the juice of apples being drunk, and endive,
141 XXXVII(*)| may be. The word was also applied to various substances held
142 Pre | Exactly on what grounds he is appreciated in the East it is difficult
143 Pre | am very conscious that my appreciation of the poet is that of the
144 IV(*) | tears, into which, when he approaches her mouth, he may fall and
145 XVI(*) | trailing clouds of human approbation, since they will judge of
146 Pre | Indian mystics, nor do they approve of artificial aids for the
147 XXXVII(*)| called the Bezaar, being approved good against Venome" and
148 VII | clouds fling.~A tale of April the meadows unfold--~Ah,
149 Pre | fortune chez les musulmans non arabes. Il y faut voir une révolte
150 XXIX(*) | grows on the deserts of Arabia near to Mecca. When the
151 II(*) | nommé Zohab, vint de l'Arabie et lui prit son tréne; it
152 XXXIV(*) | It is said that the three archangels, Gabriel, Michael, and Israfil,
153 VIII | bow the head~'Neath the archway of Life, to meet what . . .
154 XXVI(*) | known to the Persians as Ardisher Dirazdast, the Artaxerxes
155 Pre | channels; the stern religious ardour of the elder man was changed
156 II(*) | le scia en deux avec une arête de poisson. Entre autres
157 Pre | une révolte de l'esprit arien contre l'effroyante simplicité
158 XXVIII | forgotten when thou laid'st aright~The uncut gems of Hafiz'
159 XLIII | tidings of union? that I may arise--~Forth from the dust I will
160 XXIX | pilot thee,~And guide thine ark to the desirèd shore!~The
161 Pre | call to my aid the strong arm of one of the Vizir's dependants,
162 V(*) | The soldiers then rode up, armed as if for battle, and carried
163 XXVI(*) | which all readers of Matthew Arnold know. Kaikobad is said to
164 XXX(*) | with taste and admirably arranged; each trade has its own
165 XXI(*) | impostors, and generally arrant scoundrels, they maintain
166 XXVIII | sweet care strung the bright~Array of verse on verse-hast thou
167 V(*) | the habit of doing on the arrival of travellers."--Early Adventures.~
168 Pre | and each will probably arrive at a different conclusion.
169 XXVI(*) | Rustum overcame Afrasiab's arrny, killing his own son in
170 Pre | Afghan singer who wrote his Ars Poetica in the mountains
171 XXVI(*) | Ardisher Dirazdast, the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks.
172 Pre | Sayyed Ahmed of Isfahan.]~all artifices to conceal from the orthodox
173 Pre | nor do they approve of artificial aids for the subduing of
174 XL(*) | are masters of all magic arts. Tradition says that Mahommad,
175 XL(*) | the two angels are called Asa and Asail. The Talmud relates
176 XL(*) | angels are called Asa and Asail. The Talmud relates that
177 XXVI(*) | Esther. Persian historians ascribe to him also remarkable longevity,
178 Pre | Baghdad in gig, and his ashes were thrown into the Tigris.
179 Pre | 2. Les Religions de I'Asie Centrale.~3. Cf. St. Paul,
180 XVI(*) | upon whom the orthodox look askance will be found to have equal
181 Pre | of pupils. We find Hafiz asking his benefactor for money
182 III(*) | came unto her, and she was asleep, lying upon her back; and
183 XXV(*) | powers the object of his aspirations they will assuredly not
184 Pre | perfection to which they aspire. Nevertheless, Count Gobineau
185 Pre | a certain Sheikh Hassan Asrakpush in particular, who, as the
186 Pre | beneath the saddle, and the ass wears a collar of gold about
187 VII | thy heart may brave~The assault of the world; when thy fortress
188 XXX(*) | many as two thousand are assembled there, sitting with fans
189 V(*) | creditable than that which is assigned to her either in the Bible
190 Pre | poems of St. Francis of Assisi are not much read nowadays.
191 VII(*) | onwards, such religious associations grew up and flourished.
192 Pre | strict monastic rule, Hafiz assumed the dervish habit of which
193 VIII | let thy mind contend~Rest assured all perfection of mortal
194 XXV(*) | his aspirations they will assuredly not be withheld from him."--
195 Pre | spent his last hours in assuring, was not to remain for long
196 XXV(*) | the Persians. Concerning astrology and geomancy Mr. Browne
197 XXVI | For all his thought, never astronomer~That loosed the knot of
198 XVIII(*) | Shakh-i-Nahat, at noon he ate, then he slept, and at night
199 Pre | him of heresy and even of atheism, and so strong was popular
200 VIII | is proclaimed to a world athirst.~Like a rock your repentance
201 Pre | will: it was impossible to attach any responsibility to the
202 XXV(*) | of spiritual knowledge he attains to it, so if he chooses
203 XL(*) | into a star. The angels attempted to follow her to heaven,
204 VII(*) | x.). Two guardian angels attend every man and write down
205 II(*) | he set out with a great attendance to take a view of it, but
206 XXI(*) | literature, was desirous of attracting him to his court. Accordingly
207 Pre | European just as much as it attracts the Oriental mind. "Give
208 Pre | appears in the form of an attribute which exists in his very
209 XV | sound,~Diviner nightingales attune their lay.~ ~
210 Pre | certain goût du mystére, et aussi, en Perse du moins, de I'
211 II(*) | Dieu et voulut être adoré. Aussitôt, le Fari Yazdan, c'est-à-dire
212 Pre | sauver l'orthodoxie de leur auteur favori. Puis l'magination
213 IX(*) | anecdote was of doubtful authenticity.~
214 XXV(*) | he said," has no bukhl (avarice); it is impossible for Him
215 II(*) | puis un beau jour, s'étant aventuré hors de sa retraite, il
216 Pre | must be confessed that the average of Sultans was not very
217 XVI(*) | either facilis descensus Averni, or, more probably, that
218 Pre | Ishac, and the King was not averse from such good wishes as
219 Pre | of the Troubadours were avowedly intended to convey a meaning
220 XXIV | drum, what time the earth~Awaited the white dawn, and gaily
221 IX(*) | Oriental way of saying, "Awake, my St. John!"~The mystical
222 XLIII | when the dawn shall come to awaken me,~With the flush of youth
223 Pre | resting-place, and when the dreamer awakens there remains to him but
224 XXX | of Khizr giveth life for aye.~'Twixt Jafrabad and Mosalla'
225 XXVI(*) | He came to the throne in B.C. 464. He was the grandson
226 Pre | God), what matters the Ka'ba and the Synagogue and the
227 XL(*) | punishment in the land of Babel--whither, if any man have
228 Pre | the poet's death, Sultan Baber conquered Shiraz, he erected
229 XXXIV(*) | family of Noah after the Babylonian confusion of tongues and
230 XXI(*) | hair hanging down their backs, and the skins of gazelles
231 Pre | not a little annoyed; he bade Hafiz finish the poem, and
232 II(*) | Shudja, and called by him the Baghi-Irem, after Shedad's legendary
233 XXI(*) | the Deccan, Mahmud Shah Bahmani, had heard of the fame of
234 Pre | according to one tradition, of a baker of Shiraz, in which city
235 VIII(*) | Yes." But the Arabic word bala, which signifies assent,
236 XII | night day,~Where is the sun?~Balm to mine eyes the dust, my
237 Pre | Shiraz." But an occasional bandying of sharp speeches, in which
238 XIV(*) | Persian superstition, has a baneful influence upon human life.~
239 Pre | bells of alliteration like bangles upon her feet, and on her
240 XXXII | will not mourn my woeful banishment,~He that has hungered for
241 Pre | I was uplifted like a banner among the makers of verse."
242 Pre | favour of my friend. On the banners of the Conqueror (i.e. Mansur,
243 VIII | gate~Alike for all is the banquet spread,~And drunk and sober
244 XXVIII | all to thee?~Within the banquet-hall of Good Repute~(Hast thou
245 VII | may boast him a king,~His banqueting-hall is the ripening field,~And
246 XXXVIII | luxuriant hair~Breaks into barbèd hooks to catch my heart,~
247 XXI(*) | gazelles on their shoulders--barefooted, dirty, and covered with
248 Pre | of Mahommad's teaching.~Baron Sylvestre de Sacy suggested
249 XXIX(*) | hardships of the journey and the barrenness of the wastes through which
250 V | mole on thy cheek~I would barter Bokhara and Samarkand.~Bring,
251 XVIII | those that welcome thee~Have bartered peace and rest on thee to
252 XXI | grain of favour from the base,~Two hundred sacks of jewels
253 Pre | to a friendship which was based upon a marked correspondence
254 XXIV(*) | denying the Resurrection, basing the accusation upon the
255 XXX(*) | constructed a number of basins for the washing of clothes.
256 XXXIX(*) | contemptuously "the three bath women," because they had
257 XVIII | Khizr, whose happy feet bathed in life's fount,~Help one
258 Pre | kingdoms, and the clash of battle-all these he must have seen
259 XXX(*) | each trade has its own bazaar. The inhabitants are a fine
260 XXVIII | s dear torch~Lighted the beacon of desire in me,~And when
261 XXXV | her forth like to a hunted beast!~Hafiz, thou and thy tears
262 Pre | after divine wisdom, and the Beatrice, perhaps of the Vita Nuova,
263 XXXVIII | ready to fly,~But grief beats in my heart and will not
264 II(*) | mille ans durant; puis un beau jour, s'étant aventuré hors
265 Pre | pas encore éclaircie. Dans beaucoup de cas les sens mystiques
266 XXXVII(*)| other beasts which breed the beazer stone."~
267 XXXVII(*)| Seas," talks about "the becunia and other beasts which breed
268 Pre | account of the victory of Bedr--"Thou didst not slay them,
269 Pre | but a series of accidents befell him, he lost heart and returned
270 XXI(*) | and reduced to a state of beggary. Hafiz was moved to compassion
271 Pre | hope that so charming a begging letter, couched in verse
272 | beginning
273 Pre | poet. Whatever were his beginnings, it was not long before
274 XXVI(*) | her name, and in order to beguile his weary hours executed
275 XXIV(*) | had dealt a good blow on behalf of the Mahommadan religion,
276 III(*) | road. After which he said :Behave not insolently towards me,
277 Pre | dramatic fitness, had him beheaded in an open space before
278 V(*) | and possibility, when I beheld the splendour of true beauty
279 XXVI(*) | sculptures upon the rock Behistun--so says the legend. At length
280 II | wine that flows~From Life's bejewelled goblet, ruby red,~Upon thine
281 VII(*) | Nevertheless, from the time of Abu Bekr and Ali onwards, such religious
282 Pre | by the nip of famine in a beleaguered town, the inrush of conquerors,
283 XVI(*) | the house of every true believer; that it will be laden with
284 Pre | King a robe of honour and a belt studded with jewels.~Worn
285 Pre | We find Hafiz asking his benefactor for money to support this
286 Pre | upon them to remember the benefits they had received from their
287 Pre | for long upon the throne bequeathed to him by his father. During
288 Pre | died before 1393. Timur bestowed Shiraz upon Shah Yahya,
289 XXXIX(*) | the Mahommadans strangely betray their ignorance of history,
290 II(*) | subjects as a health-giving beverage. He, too, was the father
291 XXXVIII | that the whole world may be~Bewildered by thy radiant loveliness;~
292 XXXVII(*)| Joyful News," is called the Bezaar, being approved good against
293 XXXVII | lips hold the power of the bezoar--~Ah, touch and heat me where
294 Pre | Or in the words of the Bhagaradgitah: He who knows himself in
295 Pre | gone and I had not even bidden him farewell!" his words
296 XXI(*) | the sea. Under pretext of bidding farewell to some friends,
297 III(*) | comfort in Sufiism, and bids him look upon the mirror,
298 VII | Hafiz has fled,~Follow his bier with a tribute of sighs;~
299 XVI(*) | other fruits of surprising bigness, and of tastes unknown to
300 Pre | belonging to the Yekaneh Bina, of those whose eyes are
301 I | camels lament and cry:~"Bind up thy burden again and
302 Pre | grew up. Daulat Shah in his Biography of the Persian Poets traces
303 XXXVII(*)| antidote, chiefly to snake bites. Topsell, for instance,
304 V | sweet;~Not unwelcomed the bitterest answer fell~From lips where
305 XXXV | not!~My mouth has tasted bitterness, and learned~To drink the
306 IX | alone can bring!~Let not the blandishments be checked~That slender
307 XXI | indemnity,~Not worth the blast.~The Sultan's crown, with
308 XXVI(*) | hillside. On the top of a bleak pass over the mountains
309 XVII(*) | punishment, but eight of blessedness, because God's mercy exceeds
310 IV | wind from out her village blew,~And wandered all the garden
311 XXV | influence of the star that blights~My hope? The omen answers:
312 XIX | Sheikh may promise future bliss,~He brings me where joy
313 Pre | tomb of Hafiz. An oblong block of stone on which are carved
314 III(*) | went to this window and blocked it up with his wings. And
315 XXXIII | stain~Of my heart's blood? Blood-red the ruby glows~(And whence
316 XXIX | thee in vain,~The desert blooms again--oh, weep no more!~
317 XXXII | thee all men's thanks; thou blossomest~And hope springs up in every
318 XXII | Nor dancing of boughs nor blossoming rose were fair.~Though limned
319 XIX | of dawn that sets closed blossoms free~Brings its warm airs
320 XXXIX | When from those gates the blue-veined curtains rise.~And when
321 XXXI | While yet the purple petals blush and blow;~Hither adown the
322 X(*) | have been told that the boatmen on the Ganges sing it as
323 XVIII | Hafiz free~From out the bondage of thy gleaming hair!~Safe
324 Pre | the following couplet: "Boon companion, minstrel, and
325 Pre | praise of love and wine and boon-companionship, and I am inclined to think
326 Pre | had been hovering upon the borders of Fars, overran Southern
327 Pre | fixed upon the cup, their bosoms are filled with the desire
328 Pre | other: "Sir," said he to Boswell, "we know the will is free,
329 XVI | sweet-fruited trees could be bought~By thy praying-oh Cypress
330 Pre | I behold nothing but thy boundless surface." Some fish swimming
331 IX | crescent moon,~Are lost in thy bounty's radiant noon,~Vizir and
332 XXIII | every part.~But to a distant bourne was she addressed,~Alas!
333 VIII(*) | poursuivants?~Ont-ils bien bouté sous le nez? . . .~Autant
334 XIV | jealous glances set~Upon the bow-bent eyebrows of my moon,~He
335 VIII | feathered arrow astray!~A bow-shot's length through the air
336 V | fountain of Ruknabad,~And the bowers of Mosalla where roses twine.~
337 Pre | already too late to save the boy. Before Shah Shudja's death
338 Pre | fashion of kings, and from boyhood be could repeat the Koran
339 XI | Curtain, e'en~With Him, oh Braggart, thou would'st raise dispute!~
340 Pre | a man knowing himself a Brahman."~The Sufis were forced
341 XXIX | Peace to the love-tossed brain--oh, weep no more!~Oh, weep
342 Pre | popularity and of their bravery, Timur saw that there would
343 Pre | unromantic part of the Vicar of Bray. The slender thread of his
344 Pre | he was content with dry bread eaten at home, and had no
345 XXXI(*) | must pass before they may breakfast.~
346 XIX(*) | regions to a barren desert by breaking down the old reservoirs
347 IX | doth hold~The life love breathes-though my days are told,~In the
348 XXXVII(*)| becunia and other beasts which breed the beazer stone."~
349 V(*) | for the use of his weaker brethren the following comment: "
350 XVII | the tavern floor,~And a brick shall serve me for argument.~
351 XI(*) | have crossed the terrible bridge, sharper than the edge of
352 XVI(*) | ride on, ready saddled and bridled and adorned with rich trappings,
353 XVI | is as five little days,~Brief hours and swift in this
354 XXVIII | flew past, the cup of dawn brimmed high?~My love and I alone,
355 XIX | from Sheba's garden close,~Bringing good tidings of its queen
356 XXXI | away~The Future comes, and bringing--what? Dost know?"~Summoned
357 Pre | that which comes to the brink without the heart's blood;
358 Pre | he handles Sufiism in a broad and noble manner, which
359 V | the city with blood and broil,~Those soft-voiced Lulis
360 XXXV | me,~Forget not when they broke a poor slave's chain!~Though
361 XVIII(*) | leaf, it is covered with buds of a beautiful reddish-purple
362 XXI(*) | the Imams, or blowing on a buffalo's horn so as to disturb
363 XXV(*) | God," he said," has no bukhl (avarice); it is impossible
364 III | longs for thee may weep and bum~Sonnets and broken words,
365 XV | dead body breathe again and burn.~Oh come! and touch mine
366 XXIX | the veil Love's fire may burn--~Weep'st thou? let hope
367 XVI | tears,~Though I, too, have burnt in the fires of grief,~Shall
368 IV(*) | thy robe in two": that is, bursting into flower beneath the
369 Pre | the garden of his kingdom bursts into flower. "Oh great and
370 Pre | allusion is to the burning bush that spoke to Moses) why
371 Pre | his lifetime he was too busy "teaching and composing
372 II(*) | roi de Thulé, c'est pour ça qu'il n'y a plus parmi les
373 II(*) | prenant le thé dans un café de Stamboul avec un sage
374 Pre | with the law, and little calculated to incline the heart of
375 Pre | Great Khan of the Mongols in Cambalec or Pekin, but for all practical
376 XIV | harder pilgrimage to me!~Oh Camel-driver, though the cordage start,~
377 I | heart,~The bells of the camels lament and cry:~"Bind up
378 XXIX | XXIX~* FROM Canaan Joseph shall return, whose
379 XXIV | slips~From her, as from the candle's tongue of flame,~Though
380 XXIX | the night shall fling~A canopy of rose leaves, score on
381 XXV(*) | dreams also, he said, were capable of interpretation, and might
382 XXI(*) | long garments, and conical caps embroidered in many colours--
383 Pre | Divan but will be taken captive by the delicious music of
384 Pre | Shiraz in the hands of their captors, their mother, who accompanied
385 Pre | following year he returned, captured Shiraz by a stratagem, and
386 III | see thy face,~And in thine car my wind-blown greetings
387 XXXIX | her eyes;~Forth comes the caravan of sorcery~When from those
388 XXVIII | now divine?~The goblet's carbuncle (hast thou forgot?)~Laughed
389 XXV | of Winter ends its proud career.~The long confusion of the
390 Pre | réellement à double sens" are careful to insist upon the mighty
391 XXI(*) | dervish, and serves for carrying food and for drinking purposes.
392 III | cup! a voice rings in mine cars~Crying: "Bear patiently
393 Pre | éclaircie. Dans beaucoup de cas les sens mystiques prêtés
394 VII | slave,~And to leave the cash of the present untold!~Build
395 XXXIII | seal~Upon Love's treasure casket, and the key,~Are still
396 XXV(*) | in the constellation of Cassiopea is of evil presage. Besides
397 III(*) | she had entered into her castle, and the gates of it were
398 Pre | being; when he chooses he casts his reflection upon the
399 Pre | of indivisible unity. The catalogue might be continued to any
400 XIV | rose, then came a wind,~And catching at the boughs in envious
401 Pre | own life was spent in a ceaseless political activity; for
402 XXXIV(*) | and shed blood? but we celebrate thy praise and sanctify
403 Pre | king, then of another; the celebration of such and such a victory
404 XI(*) | indeed, it is said to be the central spring from whence all the
405 Pre | Les Religions de I'Asie Centrale.~3. Cf. St. Paul, who is
406 II(*) | Djemshid. It régna sept cents ans; je ne saurai vous dire
407 Pre | interpretation of religious ceremonies grew up. Daulat Shah in
408 Pre | sens mystiques prêtés à certaines poésies érotiques persanes
409 Pre | perhaps of the Vita Nuova, certainly of the Divine Comedy, is
410 II(*) | et tout ce qui s'y passe. Certains savants prétendent que cette
411 Pre | Persia. "On sait que dans ces pays," he says, "s'est développée
412 V(*) | hundreds of gold pieces.~"Cest du Molière renversé," says
413 II(*) | Certains savants prétendent que cette coupe était le soleil qui
414 Pre | réellement à double sens. Comme ceux de Djellaleddin Rumi, de
415 Pre | Religions de I'Asie Centrale.~3. Cf. St. Paul, who is scarcely
416 II(*) | enfuit dans l'Inde et y resta chaché mille ans durant; puis un
417 XXIX | heard thy weeping sore.~And chained in poverty and plunged in
418 XL(*) | mountain and suspended by chains over an abyss. It was they
419 II(*) | quinze ans; it n'y avait ni chaleur, ni froideur, et jamais
420 Pre | eyelashes a hundred glances, challenging and victorious.~"Let the
421 XXXVII(*)| Peru, was less valued. The chamois yielded German bezoar. "
422 III(*) | concerning these gifts: "A person chancing to look at a register kept
423 XIV | heart,~And mine at least in changeless memory!~Ah, when he found
424 XIX(*) | irrigating system, completely changing the physical conditions
425 XXXVI | let the rift my tears have channelled end,~Question the past no
426 Pre | delicate love-songs were chanted to the rude accompaniment
427 XXXIX(*) | second and twenty-second chapters of the Koran.) Al Simiri
428 Pre | the East. "The dominant characteristic of Sufiism," he says, "is
429 Pre | 3000 or 4000 men, twice charged into the heart of the Tartar
430 XXI(*) | to exact than to ask for charity. As they went along they
431 XXV(*) | acquainted with them were mere charlatans. Many dreams also, he said,
432 XXX(*) | are well-to-do, pious, and chaste; the women in particular
433 IX | not the blandishments be checked~That slender beauties lavish
434 X | goblets pale,~Flush our pale cheeks to drunken hue,~Fresh and
435 XXVI | Hafiz, drain the goblet cheerfully~While minstrels touch the
436 II(*) | too, was the father of chemistry and the possessor of the
437 XIV | What shall I play? Upon the chequered floor~Of Night and Day,
438 Pre | orthodox the beliefs which they cherish in their heart, but holding
439 Pre | our little day, though he cherished in his heart a more or less
440 Pre | There are times when neither cherubim nor prophet are equal unto
441 XXX(*) | he said, pointing to a chest opposite to him, are my
442 Pre | soufisme a fait fortune chez les musulmans non arabes.
443 Pre | the desired results. The chief of the threatened quarter
444 Pre | mortal conditions, which the chill of death cannot extinguish
445 I(*) | country (i.e. North-Eastern China) is found the best musk
446 Pre | a royal standard, and a Chinese umbrella; and Timur in return
447 Pre | the great Tartar invader Chinghis Khan, had conquered Baghdad,
448 XI | flattering thy soul with choice!~Who knows the Curtain's
449 Pre | own salvation: "Whosoever chooseth the life to come, their
450 Pre | which he walks is not of his choosing: "An officer of my judge
451 XXVIII(*)| to Oriental belief, Jesus Christ's gift of healing was due
452 Pre | and in the influence of Christianity; but though the works of
453 XXXIV(*) | Mohammadans, as well as the Christians, have different opinions.
454 XVII | Love doth dwell~And the church, for his lodging is everywhere.~
455 XXIV(*) | present translation and cited him before the Ulema as
456 Pre | year passed undisturbed by civil war, scarcely a year in
457 Pre | different race, and a different civilisation from ours, there are yet
458 Pre | morality accepted among the civilised races of mankind. "For all
459 XLIII | minstrelsy.~Though I be old, clasp me one night to thy breast,~
460 XIX(*) | delivered from the Danes, so a clause in the Persian litany of
461 XXIV(*) | not only was he entirely cleared, but it was also acknowledged
462 XXVIII | me, when on my happy face~Clearly thy love was writ, which
463 Pre | the time when Dante was climbing Can Grande's weary stair,
464 I | a dishonoured name.~What cloak shall cover my misery o'
465 XXI(*) | dignity in which Hafiz had cloaked his fears of the dangers
466 XIII | sad hermit, stains the cloister floor~With drops of blood,
467 Pre | they were accustomed to clothe themselves in simple woollen
468 I | waves run high, night is clouded with fears,~And eddying
469 XXV(*) | happening to strike against a cluster (or Pleiades, as they are
470 Pre | Little considered be the clutching talons of the falcon of
471 Pre | the narrow views of his co-religionists, and to look upon the world
472 I(*) | a stag's hair of a very coarse kind, but no horns. It has
473 XXXII(*) | men faster than gnats in cobwebs."~
474 XXI(*) | their shoulders the carved cocoa-nut shell, which is indispensable
475 Pre | Cantiques.]~is an accepted Sufi code with which the initiated
476 Pre | links it on to the highest codes of morality accepted among
477 Pre | directions is too often "amphora coepit institui, currente rota
478 II(*) | coupe de Djemshid c'est le cœur de l'homme de science."--
479 Pre | Vizir-induced thereto by a cogent argument. In one of the
480 XXVIII | And Steep had drawn his coif about her brow,~Hast thou
481 Pre | be there.~It is a curious coincidence (if it be nothing more)
482 Pre | saddle, and the ass wears a collar of gold about his neck.
483 XXXIX(*) | having ordered Al Samiri to collect those ornaments from the
484 XXI(*) | amulets, with beads and coloured strings and tassels."He
485 XXXII(*) | science of the East, the colouring of precious stones, even
486 XXI(*) | caps embroidered in many colours--debauched and dissolute
487 XXXIV | time that man has sought~To comb the locks of Speech, his
488 Pre | doctrine secrète, toute combinaison religieuse vivante et variée."[
489 Pre | contemplative life, but combined the functions of a teacher
490 Pre | certainly of the Divine Comedy, is no less intangible than
491 Pre | has brought thee home, why comest thou not out of thy master'
492 I(*) | them forth refreshed and comforted in body. And here the Sufis
493 I(*) | doctrine which refreshes and comforts the soul.~
494 Pre | but they did not obey his command. He fell fighting beneath
495 XXXIX(*) | Egyptians; for Aaron, who commanded in his brother's absence,
496 XXXIX(*) | determined to do them honour by commemorating their devotion in a poem,
497 Pre | which he received was not commensurate with his expectations. "
498 V(*) | weaker brethren the following comment: "In the world of non-existence
499 Pre | fruit de la fantaisie des commentateurs, ou des précautions que
500 XL(*) | knowing," says the Persian commentator of the Mesnavi of Jelaleddin
501 Pre | occasional allusion which learned commentators refer to some political
502 XXXIX(*) | who carried on a wicked commerce with them, and to keep them
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