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" 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 295
by Thomas Moore - 1817 - 405 pages
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Romantic Incidents in the Lives of Naturalists & Celebrated Travellers

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...
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Travels in Ladāk, Tartary, and Kashmir

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...
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The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

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...
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Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet

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...
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Poetry for repetition, ed. by H. Twells

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...
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The Rose Book: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose. Comprising ...

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...
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The Rose Book: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Rose. Comprising ...

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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 61

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...
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The British Poets, Volume 6

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...
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Nature and art [ed. by F.B. Ward].

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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