Sher Afzul (Laurence Hope Poems)
This was the tale Sher Afzul told to me, While the spent camels bubbled on their knees,And ruddy camp-fires twinkled through ...
This was the tale Sher Afzul told to me, While the spent camels bubbled on their knees,And ruddy camp-fires twinkled through ...
Whether I loved you who shall say?Whether I drifted down your wayIn the endless River of Chance and Change,And you ...
Listen, Beloved, the Casurinas quiver, Each tassel prays the wind to set it free,Hark to the frantic sobbing of the river, Wild ...
Along the hot and endless road, Calm and erect, with haggard eyes,The prisoner bore his fetters' load Beneath the scorching, azure skies.Serene ...
Oh, come, Beloved, before my beauty fades, Pity the sorrow of my loneliness.I am a Rosebush that the Cypress shades, No sunbeams ...
Just as the dawn of Love was breaking Across the weary world of grey,Just as my life once more was waking As ...
Love me a little, Lord, or let me go,I am so weary walking to and froThrough all your lonely halls ...
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
Ay, thou has found thy kingdom, Yasin Khan, Thy fathers' pomp and power are thine, at last.No more the rugged roads ...
I hate this City, seated on the Plain, The clang and clamour of the hot Bazar,Knowing, amid the pauses of my ...
You will be mine; those lightly dancing feet, Falling as softly on the careless streetAs the wind-loosened petals of a flower, Will ...
IWho was it held that Love was soothing or sweet?Mine is a painful fire, at its whitest heat.Who said that ...
Syed Amir is dead, and his numerous foesAre hushed in a breathless awe of amazed relief.The hearts of his friends ...
Fate has given me many a gift To which men most aspire,Lovely, precious and costly things, But not my heart's desire.Many a ...
Farewell, Aziz, it was not mine to fold you Against my heart for any length of days.I had no loveliness, alas, ...
Oh, youthful bearer of my palanquin, Thy glossy hair lies loosened on thy neck,The "tears of labour" gem thy velvet skin, Whose ...
Although my life, which thou hast scarred and shaken, Retains awhile some influence of thee,As shells, by faithless waves long since ...
Ah, the cool silence of the shaded hours,The scent and colour of the jungle flowers!Thou art one of the jungle ...
Oh, that my blood were water, thou athirst,And thou and I in some far Desert land,How would I shed it ...
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