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 Sadness (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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Eygptian Princess (Edwin Arnold Poems)
There was fear and desolation over swarthy Egypt's land,From the holy city of the sun to hot Syen?'s sand;The sistrum ...
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 ...
With A Bracelet In The Form Of A Snake (Edwin Arnold Poems)
They tell of Arab maidens, who with singing low and sweetCan tame the green and crested snake to cower at ...
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 ...
Obscure Martyrs (Edwin Arnold Poems)
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. They have no place in storied page; No rest ...
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 ...
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 ...