Couplet 9 (Amir Khusro Poems)
Farsi Couplet:Ba khak darat rau ast maara,Gar surmah bechashm dar neaayad.English Translation:The dust of your doorstep is just the right ...
Farsi Couplet:Ba khak darat rau ast maara,Gar surmah bechashm dar neaayad.English Translation:The dust of your doorstep is just the right ...
Farsi Couplet:Peeri-o-shaahid parasti naakhush ast,Khusrova taaki pareshaani hunooz.English Translation:Old age and lovemaking do not go together;But O Khusrau, you still ...
Dear friend, if there be any bond Which friendship wins not much beyond-So old and fond, since thought began-It may ...
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Among the hills a meteorite Lies huge; and moss has overgrown, And wind and rain with touches light Made soft, ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
And they heard the tent-poles clatter, And the fly in twain was torn - 'Tis the soiled rag of a ...
By homestead, hut, and shearing-shed, By railroad, coach, and track -- By lonely graves of our brave dead, Up-Country and ...
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
Playing her parchment moon Precosia comes along a watery path of laurels and crystal lights. The starless silence, fleeing from ...
Gone now the baby's nurse, a lioness who ruled the roost and made the Mother cry. She used to tie ...
To Alfred Tennyson Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine; Not as a knight, who on the listed ...
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside, While the sullen gales of autumn Shake the windows. The ungrateful ...
You have forty-nine days between death and rebirth if you're a Buddhist. Even the smallest soul could swim the English ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea: 'Ere's September come again -- the six-year men are free. O leave the dead ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedanschoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
1914-18 The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding ...
Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for ...
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
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