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 ...
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
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 ...
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
In which calm home of happy life and loveLigged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,Nor want, nor pain, nor ...
Onward he passed, Exceeding sorrowful, seeing how men Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, ...
A weary waste of blank and barren land,A lonely, lonely sea of shifting sand,A golden furnace gleaming overhead,Scorching the blue ...
Thenceforth alone the long-armed monarch strode, Not looking back,--nay, not for Bhima's sake,--But walking with his face set ...
A memory of the past hath wondrous powerTo gild the present, and to throw a veilOf rare enchantment o'er the ...
Pleasanter than the hills of Thessaly,Nearer and dearer to the poet's heartThan the blue ripple belting Salamis,Or long grass waving ...
Upon a day in Ramadan- When sunset brought an end of fast, And in his station every man ...
Doubt ye no more! there are those on highWho minister well to mortality;Angels of heaven and angels of earth,Some who ...
They tell of Arab maidens, who with singing low and sweetCan tame the green and crested snake to cower at ...
The shadows fall from the minster-wall, Where a weeping mother prayed,Resting the knee in her agony On the stone where ...
America! At this thy Golden Gate,New travelled from those portals of the West,Parting-I make my reverence! It were bestWith backward ...
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