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answered arose asked awaiting Aysia Baka-fu baron beautiful believe besso Biwa-ko bowed Breath of Mukojima Bushido castle City of Desire daimio dark daughter dawn eels eyes father fear Flower Quarter Foreign fusima geisha gods Goto Goto's guest hanashika hand head heart hibatchi honor ihai Japan Jewel River Kiku-ko kimono knew Kyoto labor Lady Lake Biwa lanterns light Lord Ikeda Lord Saito Lord Yo-Akè marquis Mikado moon Moto nation night Nightless Street Nippon O-mon observed oiiran old Nakahara OMAR KHAYYÁM once perceived Prince regarded Ren-ko replied ricksha ronin Saburo Ikeda Saito of Satsuma sakè samisen samurai Sayonara seemed seppuku servant Shiba Shima Shimadzu Shiny Locks Shogun shoji smiled soul stood suddenly sword Takè san Tanaka Taro Taro's thing thou thought tion Tokiyori Yo-Akè Tokugawa Tokyo told turned uncle voice watching whispered words yashiki Yedo yosè Yoshiwara young
Popular passages
Page 63 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Page 90 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed : And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Page 156 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her lap from some once lovely Head.
Page 201 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 74 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 259 - Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain— This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.
Page 42 - With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow ; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd — " I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Page 117 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Page 283 - Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.
Page 183 - You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house ; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. LVI For 'Is' and 'IS-NOT' though with Rule and Line, And 'UP-AND-DOWN...