 | Arthur John Arberry - English poetry - 2008 - 296 pages
...door; Oh, in God's name, Regard the claim Of strangers who implore. JH Hindky. HAFEZ A PERSIAN SONG Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid...lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarqand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy... | |
 | William Jones - Asianists - 2006 - 198 pages
...bakhsham Samarqand u Bukhärärä The two hemistichs are quite long, but Jones's expansion is spectacular: Sweet maid, if thou would'st 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 translation was savagely attacked in the... | |
 | 1955 - 396 pages
...Persian maid charmed the eighteenth-century Englishman and still continues to charm modern readers: Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. THE BROOK BY REGINALD P. DRYER IT NEVER was very much of a brook, reaches was only a wandering wrinkle... | |
 | Thomas Powel, Sir Isambard Owen, Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore - Wales - 1884 - 542 pages
...shown much of the beauty of the original poem. This is the opening stanza — " Sweet maid, if them wouldst charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck...lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcam1." VOL. VIII. tIn these languages Sir W. Jones... | |
 | 1836 - 568 pages
...above quoted are thus rendered by him, without allusion to the mole : Sweet maid, if thou would'«t charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold...That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet mow delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand." The verse in the original... | |
 | 530 pages
...literal interpretation : — SONG OF HAFIZ. Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid the::e arms thy neck infold; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy... | |
 | Asia - 1829 - 792 pages
...this verse to taken. The lines above quoted are thus rendered by him, without allusion Co tb* mte; Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight. And bid these arms my neck infold ; 1 That rosy cheek, that lOy hand, Would give thy poet more delight, Than all Bokhara's... | |
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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. 
