The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author ...Little, Brown, 1860 |
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Abdaldar Allah Almanzor amid Angel Arabian Arabs arms art thou Aswad Azrael Babylon beautiful behold Bird breath caliph called camels cave cheek cried Damsel darkness dead death Destroyer Domdaniel dost thou earth Eblis evil exclaimed Father fear feet fire flames fruit gazed gold green hand Hand of Glory Haruth hath head heard heart Heaven Hodeirah Hodeirah's hour Irem Khawla laid LAILA light lips living LOBABA looked Lord Maid Maimuna Maracci Mecca Moath Mohareb mosques never night NOTES TO BOOK o'er Okba Oneiza palace Paradise passed Pausanias Persians Pietro della Valle prayer Prophet quoth Thalaba ring rock rose round sands sate says sepulchre Simorg snow Sorcerer soul sound spake spell Spirit stone stood Sultan Tavernier tent thee thou hast tomb traveller trees voice wave wilt wind wings wonder young youth Zohak
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Page 162 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
Page 103 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 237 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 215 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head : and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 10 - The desert circle spreads, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night ! Who, at this untimely hour, Wanders o'er the desert sands ? No station is in view, Nor palm-grove, islanded amid the waste.
Page 94 - And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Page 165 - ... till it is thoroughly dry ; and if the sun is not sufficient, put it into an oven heated with fern and vervain : then compose a kind of candle with the fat of a hanged man, virgin wax, and sisame of Lapland.
Page 9 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Page 151 - He, in the eternal conflict, oft would seize Their swelling necks, and in his giant grasp Bruise them, and rend their flesh with bloody nails, And howl for agony, Feeling the pangs he gave, for of himself Co-sentient and inseparable parts, The snaky torturers grew.
Page 97 - What time they wax warm, they vanish : when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.