Vengeance (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Ballad of the Caucasus.Aischa was mine,My tender cousin,My blond lover;And you knew our love,Uncle without bowels,Foul old man.For a few ...
Ballad of the Caucasus.Aischa was mine,My tender cousin,My blond lover;And you knew our love,Uncle without bowels,Foul old man.For a few ...
(BALLADE BY NUR UDDIN)I have seen a small proud face brimming with sunlight;I have seen the daughter of the King ...
A twist of fresh flowers on your dark hair,And your hair is a panther's shadow.On your white cheeks the down ...
Translated From the Arabic of Antar (late sixth and early seventh centuries).The poets have muddied all the little fountains.Yet do ...
Translated From the Arabic of John Duncan.They put wild olive and acanthus upWith tufts of yellow wool above the doorWhen ...
Translated From a Kazack poem of the Chief Gahuan-Beyg (1850-1885).You do not want me, Zohrah.Is it because I am maimed?Yet ...
Translated From the Arabic of Yazid Ebn Moauia (seventh century).She is as wise as Hippocrates,As beautiful as Joseph,As sweet-voiced as ...
Translated From the Arabic of John Duncan.I have been at this shooting-gallery too long.It is monotonous how the little coloured ...
_From the Chinese of Wang Ch'ang Ling (eighth century)._WRITTEN ON WHITE FROSTTranslated From the Chinese of Wang Chi (sixth and ...
The world passes, nothing lasts, and the creation of menIs buried alive under the vault of Time.Autumn comes pillaging gardens;The ...
Street Song of Manchuria.It is hard for a man to tellThe hidden thought in his friend's heart,And the thought in ...
Translated From the Hindustani of Hatifi (eighteenth century).Now that the wind has taught your veil to show your eyes and ...
Song of the Tatars.Young man,If you try to eat honeyOn the blade of a knife,You will cut yourself.If you try ...
Japanese Street Song.Although I shall not see his faceFor the low riding of the ship,The three armorial oak-leaves on his ...
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