 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Anthologies - 1910 - 330 pages
...Wm. Jones) 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...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say:... | |
 | 1907 - 668 pages
...OF SHIRAZ. 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 Bokhara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarkand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - English literature - 1917 - 434 pages
...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 gold, Than all the gems of Samarkand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning... | |
 | Thomas Wright - English poetry - 1919 - 336 pages
...lines : Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold, That rosy cheek that lily hand Would give thy poet more delight...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... | |
 | Theodore Douglas Dunn - Anglo-Indian poetry - 1921 - 168 pages
...Persian Song. Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 622 pages
...251)— " Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight,...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... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - English poetry - 1924 - 230 pages
...OF HApiz 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...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say:... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...of Hafiz 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...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Poetry - 1928 - 1390 pages
...OF HAE^Z SWEET maid, if thou wouldft charm py sight, And bid these arms thy neck infoldf That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight...Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand. Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate'er the frowning zealots say:... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 536 pages
...251) — " Sweet maid, if thou would'st charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand, Would give thy poet more delight,...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... | |
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SWEET maid, if thou would'st 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. 
