 | Charles Francis Horne - English literature - 1917 - 434 pages
...? By me as by none else are secrets sung, No pearls of poesy like mine are strung. A PERSIAN SONG 1 Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck enfold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted... | |
 | Thomas Wright - English poetry - 1919 - 336 pages
...Englishman were asked what he knew of Hafiz he would probably recite Sir William Jones's elegant lines : Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid...Bocara's vaunted gold Than all the gems of Samarcand. This is all very pretty, but unfortunately it is not Hafiz. The slim, seductive beauty whom Hafiz sings... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 622 pages
...unpublished Barmaid, are from Sir W. Jones's translation of a song by Hafiz (Wbrht, Tol. xp 251)— " Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand." canto when I was in the Troad and Constantinople, and if I saw them again, it would go on ; but under... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 536 pages
...unpublished Barmaid, are from Sir W. Jones's translation of a song by Hafiz (Works, vol. xp 251) — " Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand." canto when I was in the Troad and Constantinople, and if I saw them again, it would go on ; but under... | |
 | Wales - 1887 - 288 pages
...Hafiz, in which he has shown much of the beauty of the original poem. ' This is the opening stanza— " Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid...lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, In these languages Sir W. Jones was probably inferior to none, however high... | |
 | Fritz Meier - History - 1989 - 612 pages
...my heart in hand. For his/her black mole I would give Samarkand and Bukhara illustrates his method: Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight. And bid these arms thy neck enfold; That rosy cheek and lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold,... | |
 | Charles James Frank Dowsett - Christian literature, Early - 1950 - 546 pages
...Masalla,' Sir William Jones's iambic paraphrase has the virtue of preserving the octosyllabic structure: Sweet maid, if thou woulds't charm my sight, And bid...Bocara's vaunted gold. Than all the gems of Samarcand. 7 " One might think little else. But published in 1771, in the lifetime of our Caucasian minstrel,... | |
 | Charles James Frank Dowsett - Poets, Armenian - 1997 - 548 pages
...Masalla.' Sir William Jones's iambic paraphrase has the virtue of preserving the octosyllabic structure: Sweet maid, if thou woulds't charm my sight, And bid...Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand.70 One might think little else. But published in 1771, in the lifetime of our Caucasian minstrel,... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 pages
...communicates HaTiz's delicate mosaic of sounds and symbols through evocative stanzas such as this: Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid...lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. This refreshing hedonistic poem was soon a... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 306 pages
...communicates HaTiz's delicate mosaic of sounds and symbols through evocative stanzas such as this: Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight. And bid...lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. This refreshing hedonistic poem was soon a... | |
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Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight. And bid these arms thy neck infold; That rosy cheek, that lily hand. Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. 
