An Eastern love-story. Kusa Jātakaya, a Buddhistic legend, rendered into Engl. verse by T. SteeleTrübner, 1871 - 260 Seiten |
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abide abode Adam's Peak ancient array beasts beauty rare behold bestowed BōDISAT BRAHMA Bride brought BUDDHA Buddhist Ceylon child cobra Crooked Dame Dagoba DAMBADIVA'S damsel daughter delightful divine earth elephants eyes Fair PRABAVATI fame feet flowers GAUTAMA BUDDHA gems glorious glow goddess gods gold goodly grace Hambantota heard heart heaven Hinduism hither honour INDRA jewels KĀMA Kandy King KUSA King MADU KUSA's KUSAVATI'S Lady legends live lofty Lord Lordly lotus mighty Monarch mongoose Moon Mother ne'er never NIRVANA noble Notes o'er Palace Hall Pāli peerless pitchers poem polanga priests Prince Princess Queen Queenly Dame radiant RAHU realm renowned right beautiful round royal dame SAGALA SAKRA serene seven Kings shining shone shore Sinhalese Sire soft sore sought spoke stanza stood straight straightway tender throng told took town tree TRIPLE GEM unto Vedas Wihára wise Wishing Tree words Yakinni
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Seite 221 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forget fulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Seite 238 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Seite 224 - Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, But let them go, And be you blithe and bonny. Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey nonny, nonny.
Seite 251 - The frantic blow which laid thee low, This heart shall ever rue." And now a gallant tomb they raise, With costly sculpture deck'd ; And marbles storied with his praise Poor Gelert's bones protect.
Seite 238 - Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.
Seite 213 - Oh lift me from the grass! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas ! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last.
Seite 231 - We add one more testimony from the work of M. Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire : ' Je n'he"site pas a aj outer,' he writes, ' que, sauf le Christ tout seul, il n'est point, parmi les fondateurs de religion, de figure plus pure ni plus touchante que celle du Bouddha.
Seite 251 - And marbles storied with his praise Poor Gelert's bones protect. There never could the spearman pass, Or forester, unmoved; There oft the tear-besprinkled grass Llewelyn's sorrow proved. And there he hung his horn and spear, And there, as evening fell, In fancy's ear he oft would hear Poor Gelert's dying yell. And, till great Snowdon's rocks grow old, And cease the storm to brave, The consecrated spot shall hold The name of
Seite 228 - Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise. Never comes the trader, never floats an European flag, Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer from the crag; Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower, hangs the heavy-fruited tree — Summer isles of Eden lying in dark-purple spheres of sea.
Seite 240 - ... distance, and how such enormous weights could have been lifted up. The first question is answered by ropes and rollers, and the mural sculptures of Nineveh show us what can be done by such simple machinery. We there see the whole picture of how these colossal blocks of stone were moved from the quarry on to the place where they were wanted. Given plenty of time, and plenty of men and oxen, and there is no block that could not be brought to its right place by means of ropes and rollers. And that...