Mahmood The Image-Breaker (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Old events have modern meanings; only that survivesOf past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.Mahmood once, the ...
Old events have modern meanings; only that survivesOf past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.Mahmood once, the ...
WHEN Cap'n Tom comes home, and his sea chestIs opened, oh, the shells that rainbow foamTossed on far shores, by ...
Winter moonlight;The shadow of the stone pagoda, The shadow of the pine-tree. (Masaoka Shiki)
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
I If I were in Japan today, In little Japan today, I'd watch the sampan-rowers ride On Yokohama ...
YOU go down shade to the river, where naked men sit on flat brown rocks, to watch the ferry, in ...
What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar?The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wearThat which disfigures it. ...
'Or How the Brigadier Got the Order of the Nile and the Servian White Eagle'"I write that he who reads ...
By an old whitewashed PagodaLooking Eastwards to the WestThere's a Burma girl, from BermondseySits in a sparrow's nest.She's as pretty ...
"Sleep, love, sleep! The dusty day is done. Lo! from afar the freshening breezes sweep Wide over groves of balm, ...
On the banks of the River Schlemozzle, Mid the deserts and sands of Dundalk,I've hunted wild llamas in purple pyjamas,I've ...
(_At Shwe Dagohn, in old Rangoon_)All night long the pagoda slaveHears the wind-bells high in the airTinkle with low sweet ...
By the old Pagoda Anchorage they lay full fifteen strong,And their spars were like a forest, and their names were ...
(_To A. H. R._)Out on the sea the sampans ride And the mountains brim with mist and sun.O we are ...
The summer has come,The summer has gone,And the maple leaves lift fairy handsThat ripple upon the winds of dawnWhere the ...
It is late at nightAnd the North Star is shining.The mist covers the rice-fieldsAnd the bamboosAre whispering full of crickets.The ...
T'ien-kung sun warm, pagoda door open;Alone climbing, greet Spring, drink one cup.Without limit excursion-people afar-off wonder at me;What cause most ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
The leaves of last autumn bled all their colors like rice paper maples not yet on the ground Illumined like ...
To Thushari Williams Dear Thushie, the six months you spent with us Will never be forgotten, the long days you ...
Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea I met a sacred elephant, snow-white. Upon his back a huge ...
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