 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 pages
...ALL (From the Persian of Omar Khayyam?) THE worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes,—or it prospers; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—was gone. Think in this battered caravanserai Whose portals are alternate night and day, How... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 336 pages
...Treasure on the Garden throw. 1 " XIV iThe Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon 'Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two—is gone. \ 1 xv And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds... | |
 | Condé Bénoist Pallen - 1898 - 70 pages
...and its Treasure on the Garden throw." The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two—is gone. And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1898 - 484 pages
...fire for a burnt-offering. LIFE AND DEATH. OMAR KHAYYAM. TRANSLATION OF EDWARD FITZGERALD. EXTRACTS. THE worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes — or it prospers ; and anon Think, in the battered Carravanserai, Whose portals are alternate night and day How sultan after sultan... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, XVII. Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sulta'n after... | |
 | 1898 - 730 pages
...love, joy and sorrow, are as the ' worldly hopes,' which, whether it turns to ashes or prospers— ' Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, is gone.' And yet—so full of contradictions is art as well as life—there are inconsistencies in the book... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - Iran - 1898 - 396 pages
...still a Ruby kindles in the Vine, And rnany a garden by the Water blows." This, too, pleased him : " The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers y and anon, Like Snow upon the Deserfs dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone ! " Think,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 464 pages
...those who flung it to the winds like Rain, The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai .Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1899 - 544 pages
...Oh, the brave music of a distant drum ! The worldly hope men set their hearts upon Turns ashes—or it prospers ; and anon, Like snow upon the desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two—is gone. I sometimes think that never blow so red The roses as where some buried Caesar bled;... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 450 pages
...winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turned As, buried once, Men want dug up again. XVI. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers ; and anon, XVII. Think, in this battered Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
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