 | Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker - Afghanistan - 1922 - 366 pages
...110-horse Rhone, the crash of bursting bombs, and the tattoo of machine-guns. This not too far from The low flat strand Of Oxus, where the summer floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snow in high Pamere. — strange regions for men who have newly learnt Swahili in the Rufiji swamps and Flemish... | |
 | Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker - Afghanistan - 1922 - 362 pages
...110-horse Rhone, the crash of bursting bombs, and the tattoo of machine-guns. This not too far from The low flat strand Of Oxus, where the summer floods o'erflow When the son melts the snow in high Pamere. — strange regions for men who have newly learnt Swahili in the... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...cold wet fog, 10 Through the dim camp to Peran-Wisa's tent. Through the black Tartar tents he passed, which stood Clustering like beehives on the low flat strand Of Oxus, where the summer-floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamere; 15 Through the black tents he passed,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1924 - 456 pages
...cold wet fog, Through the dim camp to Peran-Wisa's tent. Through the black Tartar tents he pass'd, which stood Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat...the summer floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamere : Through the black tents he pass'd, o'er that low strand, And to a hillock came,... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - English poetry - 1924 - 624 pages
...Through the dim camp to Peran-Wisa's tent. Through the black Tartar tents he pass'd, which stood foam Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat strand Of...the summer floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamere : Through the black tents he pass'd, o'er that low strand, And to a hillock came,... | |
 | 1926 - 550 pages
...gospel was now brought, and by whom it was largely accepted : Through the black Tatar tents he passed, which stood Clustering like beehives on the low flat...the summer floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamir. The men of former times had crowned the top With a clay fort; but that was fall'n,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 906 pages
...in th; chivalrous combats of those days." [Author's note.] Through the black Tartar tents he passed, which stood Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat...the summer floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamere: Through the black tents he passed, o'er that low strand, And to a hillock came,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...wet fog, ю Through the dim camp to Peran-Wisa's 2 tent. Through the black Tartar tents he pass'd, and gold, And devils to adore for deities : Then...were they known to men by various names, And various Wbenthe sun melts the snows in high Pamere:* Through the black tents he pass'd, o'er that low strand,... | |
 | Frances Wood - History - 2002 - 274 pages
...'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) echo Burnes, particularly the references to the black Tartar tents he passed, which stood Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat strand Of Oxus, where the summer-floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamere.3° Arnold's description of Sohrab's... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 848 pages
...the cold wet fog, Through the dim camp to Peran-Wisa's tent Through the black Tartar tents he passed, ftN Pamere : Through the black tents he passed, o'er that low strand, And to a hillock came, a little back... | |
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Through the black tents he pass'd, o'er that low strand, And to a hillock came, a little back From the stream's brink, the spot where first a boat, Crossing the stream in summer, scrapes the land. 
