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 ...
Heart, my heart, thou hast found thy home! From gloom and sorrow thou hast come forth,Thou who wast foolish, and sought ...
At night, when Passion's ebbing tide Left bare the Sands of Truth,Yasmini, resting by my side, Spoke softly of her youth."And one" ...
Along the hot and endless road, Calm and erect, with haggard eyes,The prisoner bore his fetters' load Beneath the scorching, azure skies.Serene ...
I hate this City, seated on the Plain, The clang and clamour of the hot Bazar,Knowing, amid the pauses of my ...
They lay the slender body down With all its wealth of wetted hair,Only a daughter of the town, But very young and ...
We have left Gul Kach behind us, Are marching on Apozai,--Where pleasure and rest are waiting To welcome us by and by.We're ...
Syed Amir is dead, and his numerous foesAre hushed in a breathless awe of amazed relief.The hearts of his friends ...
The sins of Youth are hardly sins, So frank they are and free.'T is but when Middle-age begins We need morality.Ah, pause ...
She was fair as a Passion-flower, (But little of love he knew.)Her lucent eyes were like amber wine, And her eyelids stained ...
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