 | Questions and answers - 1898 - 664 pages
...the most familiar stanza— A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread— and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness. Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow — is thus found in two quatrains, numbered respectively 149 and 155 in Mr. Heron-Allen's translation,... | |
 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...Old Omar gives us a more poetic version of the same thing: — " A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow I " I am not desirous in this essay of discussing the morality of any habit, as such; I simply wish... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 pages
...of Slave and Sultan scarce is known, And pity .Sultan Mahruud on his Throne. XI. Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of...Verse — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — And Wilderness is Paradise enow. XII. " How sweet is mortal Sovranty I" — think some : Others... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...Where name of slave and sultan is forgot, — And peace to Mahmud on his golden throne ! " Here with a little bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a...— and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness, — O, wilderness were paradise enow." " Some for the glories of this world, and some Sigh for the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...Where name of slave and sultan is forgot, — And peace to Mahmiid on his golden throne ! " Here with a little bread beneath the bough, A flask of wine, a...— and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness, — O, wilderness were paradise enow." " Some for the glories of this world, and some Sigli for the... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1911 - 330 pages
...and then through the rise and fall of sicksweet cadence to "the happy-ever-afterward." " A loaf of bread, beneath the bough, A flask of wine — a book of verse — and thou." This for the many. But the thinking man saves his eyes, therefore his mind, therefore his soul, from... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...Throne ! EUBAITAT OF XII. A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XIIL Some for the Glories of This World ; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come ; Ah,... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - Jews - 1881 - 316 pages
...their converse ? " HALLAM. " A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness, — Oh, wilderness were Paradise enow!" FROM THE PERSIAN. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. CHAPTER VIII. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. TT was a glorious... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - Bible - 1881 - 306 pages
...Eccl. ii. 24, v. 8, ix. 7. , "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a loaf of Bread — and thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness, Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow. Some for the Glories of this World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - Bible - 1881 - 312 pages
...Eccl. ii. 24, v. 8, ix. 7. "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a loaf of Bread — and thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness, Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow. Some for the Glories of this World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the... | |
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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh ! Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XII " How sweet is mortal Sovrainty ! " — think some ; Others " How blest the Paradise to... 
