Download or read book Persian Poetry for English Readers written by Samuel Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Persian Poetry for English Readers Being Specimens of Six of the Greatest Classical Poets of Persia written by Samuel Robinson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...no voice from the old man reached the ear. Then he said: "O thou that hast seen many days, I perceive that thou art not pious and earnest as an old man should be. "Is it not proper, when thou eatest thy daily bread, to name the name of the Lord who gave it?" He replied: "I have not followed thy way, for I was never taught it by the Priest of the Fire-Worshippers." Then the Prophet of good omen knew that the old man was an Infidel, doomed to perdition; And when he found him to be an alien, he assailed him with contumelies as a wicked wretch too unholy to consort with the holy. Then came an Angel from the Creator who reproved him sternly, saying: "I have bestowed upon him life and daily food for a hundred years, and is he become to thee an abomination in a single day? "If he hath offered up his adoration before Fire, art thou therefore to withdraw from him the hand of benevolence?"--Grafs Text, p. 142. Trans/. i. 99. The Wise Man And The Cheat. An eloquent fellow came to a Wise-man, saying: "I am broken-down and stuck fast, entangled in the clay. "I am indebted to one of the base-bom rabble ten direms, the weight of which lieth on my breast like ten hundred-weights. "All night he maketh my condition miserable; all day he followeth my tail like my shadow. "He hath sorely broken my heart with his words; my inmost soul as the door of my house. "He talketh as though God, since his mother bore him, had never given him aught save those ten direms. "Of the books of his religion he knoweth not the first letter, and can recite only the chapter of denial. "Not a day doth the sun rise above the mountain that this wretched man is not battering my door with the knocker. "I am...
Download or read book Persian Poetry for English Readers written by Samuel Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persian Poetry for English Readers written by Samuel Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
