One Moment in Annihilation's Waste. One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste— The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing— Oh, make haste! Punch - Page 8edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
| Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1859 - 48 pages
...our Feet : Unborn TO-MORROW, and dead YESTERDAY, Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet ! XXXVIII. One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of...are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing16— Oh, make haste ! XXXIX. How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit Of This and That endeavour... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh but the long long while the World shall last, XLVI. XL IX. One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of...of Life to taste — The Stars are setting, and the Caravan17 Draws to the Dawn of Nothing — Oh make haste ! Would you that spangle of Existence spend... | |
| Edward Sell - Islam - 1880 - 376 pages
...others the sadness which fills his heart, as all that is bright is seen passing away into oblivion. One moment in annihilation's waste, One moment, of...Starts for the dawn of nothing — oh, make haste ! Ah, fill the cup : — what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our feet : Unborn... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1881 - 1120 pages
...poetical contradiction of thought in Mr. Fitzgerald's translation of the Soofee poet, Omar Khayyam, The stars are setting, and the caravan Starts for the dawn of nothing. Oh, make haste ! The Persian character is the reverse of analytical, the reverse of consistent. He resembles a child... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...more ; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour. XXXVIII One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of...Starts for the Dawn of Nothing — Oh, make haste ! XLVII When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more ; XXXVIII \) One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of...are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing—Oh, make haste ! When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the... | |
| Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1888 - 136 pages
...on, And which the swarthy Chamberlain shall strike Then when the Sultan rises to be gone ?~\ XXXVIII One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of...Starts for the Dawn of Nothing — Oh, make haste ! XXXIX How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute ? Better be... | |
| Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1888 - 138 pages
...the Sultan rises to be gone ?~\ XXXVIII One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of the Weil of Life to taste — The Stars are setting and the...Starts for the Dawn of Nothing — Oh, make haste ! XXXIX How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute ? Better be... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pages
...as Ocean of a pebble-cast. In ed. 3: As the SEV'N SEAS should heed a pebble-cast. XLVIH. In ed. i: One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of...to taste— The Stars are setting, and the Caravan Draws to the 'Dawn of Nothing—Oh make haste'. In the first draught of ed. 3 line 3 originally stood:... | |
| Lionel Tennyson - 1891 - 250 pages
...poetical contradiction of thought in Mr. Fitzgerald's translation of the Soofee poet, Omar Khayyam, The stars are setting, and the caravan Starts for the dawn of nothing. Oh, make haste ! The Persian character is the reverse of analytical, the reverse of consistent. He resembles a child... | |
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