With Sa'di in the Garden: Or, The Book of Love, Being the "Ishk" Or Third Chapter of the "Bostân" of the Persian Poet Sa'di, Embodied in a Dialogue Held in the Garden of the Taj Mahal, at Agra |
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Adelaide Anne Procter Allah Arjamand beauty Bird bliss blood Bostân breast breath BRISTOL MERCURY brow Buddhism Bulbul clasped Crown 8vo Cypress DAILY TELEGRAPH dance Darweesh dear Death DILAZAR doth Earth English eyes face fair faith feet Friend Garden gems gentle girl glad gleam God's gold grace green GULBADAN GULBADAN sings hand hast hath Hâtim hear heard heart Heaven honey Indian poetry Ishk King kiss Lakshmî Light of Asia lips live LONDON Lord Love Love's Lover LUDGATE HILL Mahabharata marble melodies MIRZA reads MORNING mouth Mumtaz neck night Nightingale noble nought o'er pearls Persian pity poem Poet Queen Quoth Rose Sa'di SAHEB Samarkand Sanskrit Sarga sate Shah Jahan Shaitan Shirin Singing-girl Sir Edwin Arnold soft Song of Songs soul spake Sultan sweet tender thee thine things thou art Tomb TRÜBNER twas verse whispered wilt wine wise wonder
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Page 10 - In an Indian Temple," "A Casket of Gems," "A Queen's Revenge,
Page 6 - PEARLS OF THE FAITH ; or, Islam's Rosary : being the Ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah. With Comments in Verse from various Oriental sources as made by an Indian Mussulman. By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI, &c. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, pp. xvi. and 320, cloth. 1883. 7s. 6d. ARNOLD.— THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana).
Page 10 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c.
Page 10 - The Buddha of this poem, — if, as need not be doubted, he really existed, — was born on the borders of Nepaul, about 620 BC, and died about 543 BC at Kusinagara in Oudh. In point of age, therefore, most other creeds are youthful compared with this venerable religion, which has in it the eternity of a universal hope, the immortality of a boundless love, an indestructible element of faith in final good, and the proudest assertion ever made of human freedom.
Page 9 - Eastern luxuriousness and sensuousness ; the air seems laden with the spicy odours of the tropics, and the verse has a richness and a melody sufficient to captivate the senses of the dullest.
Page 3 - A passion, and a worship, and a faith Writ fast in alabaster, 'so that Earth Hath nothing anywhere of mortal toil So fine-wrought, so consummate, so supreme — So, beyond praise, Love's loveliest monument — As what in Agra, upon Jumna's bank, Shah Jahan builded for his Lady's grave.
Page 2 - THE SECRET OF DEATH. (From the Sanskrit?) WITH SOME COLLECTED POEMS. By Sir EDWIN ARNOLD, MA, KCIE, CSI, &c.
Page 10 - Hindus are clearly due to the benign influence of Buddha's precepts. More than a third of mankind, therefore, owe their moral and religious ideas to this illustrious prince, whose personality, though imperfectly revealed in the existing sources of information, cannot but appear the highest, gentlest, holiest, and most beneficent, with one exception, in the history of Thought.
Page 10 - Asia, which had nevertheless existed during twenty-four centuries, and at this day surpasses, in the number of its followers and the area of its prevalence, any other form of creed. Four hundred and seventy millions of our race live and...
Page 20 - Of fair delicious fancies, wreath and sprig, Blown tulip, and closed rose, lilies and vines, All done in cunning finished jewellery Of precious gems — jasper and lazulite, Sardonyx, onyx, blood-stone, golden-stone, Carnelian, jade, crystal, and chalcedony, Turkis, and agate; and the berries and fruits Heightened with coral-points and nacre-lights (One single spray set here with five-score stones) So that this place of death is made a bower With beauteous grace of blossoms overspread; And she who...