 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
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, Irish - 1905 - 234 pages
...opening passage is a good example of Moore's high-wrought effort after Eastern local colour: — " Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...see it at sunset, — when warm o'er the Lake Its spiendour at parting a summer eve throws, Like a bride, full of blushes, when ling'ring to take A last... | |
 | 1902 - 438 pages
...that ne'er can shine again On life's dull stream. THE VALE OP CASHMERE. (Prom “Lalla Rookh.”) WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave? 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... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...me. 28 THE VALE OF CASHMERE. [From Lollo Rookh (1817): Introduction to 'Tb« Light of the Haram'J Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave? s Oh! to see it at sunset, — when warm o'er the Lake Its splendour at parting a summer eve throws,... | |
 | Ellsworth Huntington - Asia, Central - 1907 - 498 pages
...changes which may have been so momentous in the world's history. CHAPTER I THE VALE OF KASHMIR " Who has not heard of the vale of Cashmere, With its roses...and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hung over their wave ? " THOMAS MOORE. WE had expected to find Kashmir idyllic, a green sunny vale... | |
 | Durrant Thorpe - Africa - 1907 - 304 pages
...from Madura. 26th day. Colombo (Ceylon), twelve hours by steamer from Tuticorin. Kashmir Valley. Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere ? With its roses...brightest that earth ever gave ; Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave. — Latla Rookh.... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1908 - 430 pages
...that ne'er can shine again On life's dull stream. THE VALE OF CASHMERE. (From " Lalla Rookh.") WHO has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere, With its roses...to see it at sunset— when warm o'er the Lake Its splendor at parting a summer eve throws, lyike a bride, full of blushes, when ling'ring to take A last... | |
 | Arthur Edward Phillips - Elocution - 1909 - 394 pages
...divine prodigality another series of inimitable decorations. The Vale of Cashmere. THOMAS MOORE. 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... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin, Lewis Melville, William Beckford - Beckford, William, 1759-1844 - 1910 - 442 pages
...gave ; Its temples and grottoes and fountains as clear As the love-lighted eyes that look over its wave ? Oh, to see it at sunset, when warm o'er the...a summer eve throws Like a bride full of blushes, who lingering takes A last look at the mirror to bed ere she goes. Here the music of prayer from a... | |
 | Joshua Duke - Jammu and Kashmir (India) - 1910 - 522 pages
...Rookh," written in London, or, at least in Europe, has immortalised the fair vale as Cashmere. " Who has not heard of the vale of Cashmere With its roses...; Its temples, and grottos, and fountains as clear Ais the love.lighted eyes that hang over their wave." Vigne, in his great work published in 1842, spells... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - American essays - 1910 - 296 pages
...too narrow. When my home work was well in hand, I should visit the neighboring regions. For — Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere With its roses...the brightest that earth ever gave, Its temples, and grottoes, and fountains as clear At the love-lighted eyes that hang over their wave ? It might be found... | |
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