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 Love (27 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 ...
Violetta (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Oh! was there ever tale of human loveWhich was not also tale of human tears?Died not sweet Desdemona? sorrowed notFair, ...
Alley (Edwin Arnold Poems)
I do remember well at KilcreaThe castle, and the friary, and bridge;And I remember better how I satHalf a long ...
Grisma; Or The Season Of Heat (Edwin Arnold Poems)
With fierce noons beaming, moons of glory gleaming, Full conduits streaming, where fair bathers lie, With sunsets ...
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 ...
Quentin Matsys (Edwin Arnold Poems)
A memory of the past hath wondrous powerTo gild the present, and to throw a veilOf rare enchantment o'er the ...
The Alchemist (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Evening and morning, midnight and mid noon,For twice five lustres, this my cell hath been,My pleasure-house and prison.—I did swear,Kissing ...
The Falcon-Feast (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Well and wisely spake the master Of the silver Tuscan talk,Love should laugh at all disaster If with wisdom he ...
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 ...
Solomon And the Ant (Edwin Arnold Poems)
_Say Ar-Raheen! call Him "Compassionate,"_ _For He is pitiful to small and great_. 'Tis written ...
She and He (Edwin Arnold Poems)
She is dead! they said to him; "come away;Kiss her and leave her, — thy love is clay!"They smoothed her ...
The Fairy’s Promise (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Poet.Beautiful silver-winged spirits of good,That hide in the leaves of the loneliest wood;Green-kirtled fairies whom none may seeBut the soul ...
Sir Evelynge: A Fragment (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Doubt ye no more! there are those on highWho minister well to mortality;Angels of heaven and angels of earth,Some who ...
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 Musmee (Edwin Arnold Poems)
The Musmee has brown-velvet eyes, Curtained with satin, sleepily; You wonder if those lids would rise The newest, strangest sight ...
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, ...
To My Mother (Edwin Arnold Poems)
The crimson sun is sinking, And the Highland hills are blue,And the silver lake is sleeping At the back of ...
The Marriage (Edwin Arnold Poems)
The robing is done, The bells have begun.And the bride is as bright is as a rising sun. And her ...
Eiverwmenan (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Alas! alas! and is it sin to love thee as I love,To hold thee in this heart of mine, all ...
Wishing (Edwin Arnold Poems)
A bed sorrow-circled,And a pale dying daughter there, With lustreless eyeAnd tresses of tangled hair. With forehead that freezesThe kiss ...
Anacreon: Ode 66 (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Calepon to mh filhsaiAh! not to love is sad and hard, And yet to love is heavy pain;But harder, heavier ...
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 ...