 | Khayyam, Omar - 1989 - 142 pages
...better reckoning ?-Nay, 'Twas only striking from the Calendar Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday. lately, by the Tavern door agape, Came shining through...Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and'twas-the Grape! 1 he Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:... | |
 | John Paul Scott - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1990 - 378 pages
...wine of life that he acquired real depth. As he expresses it, "I was never deep in anything but wine." And lately, by the Tavern door agape, Came shining...vessel on his shoulder ; and He bid me taste of it I and 'twas — the Grape! He says that lately, thru the parietal-occipital suture, or door of the... | |
 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 342 pages
...human compass, eh? If so, by striking from the Calendar Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday. LX . And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining...and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas — the Grape! LXI. The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:"" The sovereign... | |
 | Arnold Michael - Fiction - 2002 - 272 pages
...from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Waving their goblets in time to a rollicking melody, they all sang: And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining...and He bid me taste of it; and "twas - the Grape! Then Leo poured into each goblet purple port from the slopes of Portugal. When the last was filled,... | |
 | Ed Hotaling - Religion - 2003 - 236 pages
...Rubaiyat had a representative from Paradise stop by: And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a vessel on...Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas — the Grape!9 On the issue of wine, women, and Paradise, the rebellious Muslim Khayyam pushed Islam to its... | |
 | Omar - Poetry - 2005 - 109 pages
...reckoning? — Nay 'Twas only striking from the Calendar Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday. LVIII And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining...Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas — the Orapel LIX The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign... | |
 | Omar - Poetry - 2005 - 109 pages
...reckoning?—Nay 'Twas only striking from the Calendar Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday. LVIII And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining...Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas—the Orapel LIX The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:... | |
 | Yogi Ramacharaka - Religion - 2007 - 377 pages
...house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse." *#*#*#*# "And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining...and He bid me taste of it; and t'was — the Grape 1" *#»####» "The Grape that can with Logie absolute The Two-amd-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The... | |
 | Ian Stewart - Science - 2007 - 306 pages
...Omar's verses were distinctly nonreligious. Many of them praise wine and its effects. For instance: And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining...and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas — the Grape! There are wry allegorical references to wine, as well: Whether at Naishdpur or Babylon, Whether the... | |
 | E. B. Alston - Fiction - 2007 - 223 pages
...garment of Repentance fling The Bird of Time has but a little way Toflutter-and the Bird is on the Wing. And lately by the Tavern Door agape Came shining through...Vessel on his Shoulder, and He bid me taste of it; it 'twas-the Grape. Earth's top is cloaked in Arctic cold, And cold where the Antarctic winds blow... | |
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And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas — the Grape! 
