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Aboo Simbel Arabian Asyoot beauty behold blue boat Cairo Cambyses castanets cataract chibouque Cleopatra columns crew crocodile dancing dark deck delight desert donkeys dragoman dream East Eastern Egypt Egyptian Esne exquisite fair fancy fascinated feel float flowers forever forms Ghawazee Ghazeeyah Girgeh golden golden-sleeved grace grandeur Greek green Hadji hareem heard Hecate Herodotus houris Howadji human Ibis Karnak kings kurbash Kushuk Arnem land landscape lingered looked lotus Luxor Memnon Mohammad moonlight morning mountains mummy mystery nargileh nature Nero never night Nile Nubian oriental Osiris Pacha palm-grove palms passed Persian Philæ poets pyramids race Ramses river rock Roman ruins sails Sakia sand sculptures Seyd Shekh shore silence singing slippers smoke solemn song Sphinx strange stream sunset sweet Syene tarabuka temple Theban Thebes tombs tropical turban Verde Giovane walls white Nile wind wings Xenobi
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Page 57 - Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist," Foot it featly" here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Burden (dispersedly) . Hark, hark! Bow-woW. The watch-dogs bark ! Bow-woW. ART. Hark, hark ! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, " Cock-a-diddle-doW." FER. Where should this music be ? I' the air or the earth ? It sounds no more ; and, sure, it waits upon Some god o
Page 243 - Never ; he will not : Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her ; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 250 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings: at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Page 250 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange, invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Page 250 - The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature.
Page 250 - The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which "they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 114 - Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, 50 Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And through the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, 55 And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.
Page 17 - The ladies came gaily after, in single file, chatting together ; and although Araby's daughters are still ' born to blush unseen,' they looked earnestly upon the staring strangers. Did those strangers long to behold that hidden beauty ? Could they help it, if all the softness and sweetness of hidden faces radiated from melting eyes ? " Then came Sakkas, men with hogskins slung over their backs, full of water.
Page 16 - Abon Hassan sat at the city gate, and I saw Haroun Alrashid quietly coming up in that disguise of a Moussoul merchant. I could not but wink at Abon, for I knew him so long ago in the Arabian Nights. But he rather stared than saluted, as friends may, in a masquerade. There was Sinbad the porter, too, hurrying to Sinbad the Sailor. I turned and watched his form fade in the twilight, yet I doubt if he reached Bagdad in time for the eighth history.
Page 17 - But he rather stared than saluted, as friends may, in a masquerade. There was Sinbad the porter, too, hurrying to Sinbad the Sailor. I turned and watched his form fade in the twilight, yet I doubt if he reached Bagdad in time for the eighth history. Scarce had he passed, when a long string of donkeys ambled by, bearing, each, one of the inflated balloons. It was a hareem taking the evening air. A huge eunuch was the captain, and rode before. They are bloated, dead-eyed creatures, the eunuchs —...