WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave... Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance - Page 295by Thomas Moore - 1817 - 405 pagesFull view - About this book
| Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Biography - 1861 - 400 pages
...FEAST OF FLOWERS." Feast of Flowers ! The very words breathe of romance, and remind us of the lovely vale of Cashmere, " With its roses, the brightest that Earth ever gave ;" whose floral festivity is so charmingly painted in " The Light of the Haram." The reader will accordingly... | |
| Henry D'Oyley Torrens - Asia, Central - 1862 - 420 pages
...rude gaze of the passer-by. The day is now drawing to a close, and we see the lake at its best — " At sunset, when warm o'er the lake, Its splendour...summer eve throws, Like a bride full of blushes, when lingering to take A last look at her mirror at night when she goes." The boatmen are quite alive to... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1863 - 580 pages
...Haram. She was afterwards called Nourjehau, or the Light of the World. THE LIGHT OF THE HARAM. Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...summer eve throws, Like a bride, full of blushes, when lingering to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes ! — When the shrines through the... | |
| William Henry Knight - Jammu and Kashmir (India) - 1863 - 456 pages
...the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave : / / INTRODUCTION. MORE than a year and a half had been spent in the hottest parts of the plains of... | |
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...vile intent must needs seem horrible. SHAKESPEARE. 187. THE VALE OF CASHMERE. [From LALLA ROOKH.] WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...summer eve throws, Like a bride, full of blushes, when lingering to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes ! Or to see it by moonlight, -when... | |
| James Shirley Hibberd - 1864 - 326 pages
...thence we are wafted by the light-hearted poet to witness the festival of the scattering : — " Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest the world ever gave ; Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that... | |
| Shirley Hibberd - Flowering shrubs - 1864 - 310 pages
...thence we are wafted by the light-hearted poet to witness the festival of the scattering : — " Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses the brightest the world ever gave ; Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 pages
...reader. One of his water-color drawings of the Lake of Cashmere reminds us at once of Moore's lines : " Oh ! to see it at sunset, when warm o'er the Lake Its splendor at parting a Summer-eve throws — Like a bride full of blushes when ling'ring to take A last... | |
| 1865 - 426 pages
...earth ever gave,* lie temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear As the lore-lighted eves that hung over their wave ? Oh! to see it at sunset, — when...splendour at parting a summer eve throws, Like a bride, foil of blushes, when lingering to take A last look of her mirror at night ere she goes ! — When... | |
| Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...REVIEWS. | Xuttirp and Art. where death seemed to share equal honour« with heaven," to Cashmere. " Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...lake, Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws." But to pursue the path travelled by Moore's sweet " Bookh," on her romantic love-erraiul, it is necessary... | |
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