The Light of Asia: Book the Second (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
Edwin Arnold Poems on God (18 Poems)
The Light of Asia: Book the Fifth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Fourth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Third (Edwin Arnold Poems)
In which calm home of happy life and loveLigged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,Nor want, nor pain, nor ...
The Pure Sacrifice Of Buddha (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Onward he passed, Exceeding sorrowful, seeing how men Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, ...
The Youth Of Buddha (Edwin Arnold Poems)
This reverence Lord Buddha kept to all his schoolmasters, Albeit beyond their learning taught; in speech Right ...
Hagar In The Wilderness (Edwin Arnold Poems)
A weary waste of blank and barren land,A lonely, lonely sea of shifting sand,A golden furnace gleaming overhead,Scorching the blue ...
The Faithfulness Of Buddha (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Thenceforth alone the long-armed monarch strode, Not looking back,--nay, not for Bhima's sake,--But walking with his face set ...
Solomon And the Ant (Edwin Arnold Poems)
_Say Ar-Raheen! call Him "Compassionate,"_ _For He is pitiful to small and great_. 'Tis written ...
Academe (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Pleasanter than the hills of Thessaly,Nearer and dearer to the poet's heartThan the blue ripple belting Salamis,Or long grass waving ...
The Caliph’s Draught (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Upon a day in Ramadan- When sunset brought an end of fast, And in his station every man ...
After Death In Arabia (Edwin Arnold Poems)
He who died at Azan sendsThis to comfort all his friends:Faithful friends! It lies, I know,Pale and white and cold ...
The Division of Poland (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Upon Earth's lap there lay a pleasant land,With mountain, wood, and river beautified,And city-dotted. For the pleasant landThe icy North ...
An Apology (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Our name should be a name for hope to utter, A watchword for the chosen of the land;A bloodless nation-flag, ...
The Mourner (Edwin Arnold Poems)
The shadows fall from the minster-wall, Where a weeping mother prayed,Resting the knee in her agony On the stone where ...
Iphigenia (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Rapt she stood!Beautiful—but so very,—very still,That but for some light quivering of her lip,And the quick tremble of her lifted ...
The Afternoon (Edwin Arnold Poems)
_He is sufficient, and He makes suffice; Praise thus again thy Lord, mighty and wise_. God is enough! ...
Envoi To ‘The Light Of Asia’ (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Ah, Blessed Lord! Oh, High Deliverer! Forgive this feeble script which doth Thee wrong Measuring with little wit ...