 | English literature - 1815 - 586 pages
...— " 0 bad I seen, what fate bas now denied, " My glorions Father! Life will soon be o'er, ** Aad his great deeds enchant my soul no more! * But hope...fly, " Or midst the star-beams track the upper sky, " His kindled rage would persecute thee there, " For ROOSTVM'S soul will burn with anguish and despair."... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...dying hour.' Groaning with pain, he then in murmurs sigh'd, ' 0 had I seen, what Fate has now denied, My glorious father ! Life will soon be o'er, And his...for thee the deepest glooms of night : Couldst thou through ocean's depths for refuge fly, Or, midst the star-beams, track the upper sky, His kindled rage... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...dying hour.' Groaning with pain, he then in murmurs sigh'd, ' O had I seen, what Fate has now denied, My glorious father ! Life will soon be o'er, And his...sight, In vain for thee the deepest glooms of night : Couldstthou through ocean's depths for refuge fly, Or, midst the star-beams, track the upper sky,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Asia - 1844 - 354 pages
...dying hour.' Groaning in pain, he then in murmurs sighed, ' O, had I seen what fate has now denied, My glorious father ! Life will soon be o'er, And his...for thee the deepest glooms of night. Could'st thou through ocean's depths for refuge fly, Or midst the star-beams track the upper sky, His kindled rage... | |
 | Robert Patrick Anderson - 1882 - 46 pages
...— " My life-blood flows — the .struggle now is o'er, " Great Roostum's deeds his son shall hear no more ; " But hope not to elude his piercing sight ? " In vain for thee the deepest glooms of night ? " Could thou through oceans depths for refuge fly, " Or 'midst the star-beams track the upper sky,... | |
 | Firdawsī - English poetry - 1892 - 450 pages
...Mahmud, perhaps he ingrafted them on his own poem, 01 more probably they have been interpolated since. " My glorious father! Life will soon be o'er, " And his great deeds enchant my soul no more ! " Of him my mother gave the mark and sign, " For him I sought, and what an end is mine ! " My only... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 556 pages
...an end is mine ! My only wish on earth, my only sigh, Him to behold, and with that wish I die, Hut hope not to elude his piercing sight, In vain for thee the deepest glooms of night. Couldst thou through ocean's depths for refuge fly, Or 'midst the star-beams track the upper sky ! Rustem, with... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - Oriental literature - 1899 - 478 pages
...wrought My downfall; thou are guiltless — guiltless quite; O ! had I seen my father in the fight, My glorious father! Life will soon be o'er, And his great deeds enchant my soul no more! Of him my mother gave the mark and sign, For him I sought, and what an end is mine! My only wish on... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 464 pages
...wrought My downfall; thou are guiltless — guiltless quite; O ! had I seen my father in the fight, My glorious father! Life will soon be o'er, And his great deeds enchant my soul no more! Of him my mother gave the mark and sign, For him I sought, and what an end is mine! My only wish on... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...wrought My downfall ; thou art guiltless — guiltless quite ; 0 had I seen my father in the fight, My glorious father ! Life will soon be o'er ; And his great deeds enchant my soul no more. Of him my mother gave the mark and sign, For him I sought, and what an end is mine ! My only wish on... | |
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Vaunt not, in thy pride; Upon myself this sorrow have I brought, Thou but the instrument of fate — which wrought My downfall ; thou art guiltless — guiltless quite ; O ! had I seen my father in the fight, My glorious father ! Life will soon be o'er,... 
