O'er my life these silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies youth had hidden out of sight It is seldom that we see a metaphor so well carried out, or so pregnant with meaning as this ; — the contrast between the dark... The Poetical Works of Behá-ed-Dín Zoheir, of Egypt - Page 18by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, Edward Henry Palmer - 1877 - 339 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1872 - 740 pages
...furnish him with many pleasing and novel conceits. "Now the night of youth is over, and gray-headed dawn is near Fare ye well ye tender meetings with the friends I held so dear I O'er my life these silvcrv locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many fulliei youth... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1872 - 822 pages
...him with many pleasing and novel conceits : — Now the night of youth is over, and grey-headed dawn is near, Fare ye well ye tender meetings with the friends I held so denr : O'er my life these silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies... | |
| Sir Walter Besant - Arabists - 1883 - 460 pages
...furnish him with many pleasing and novel conceits— Now the night of youth is over, and grey-headed dawn is near Fare ye well ye tender meetings with the friends...silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies youth had hidden out of sight. It is seldom that we see a metaphor so well... | |
| Sir Walter Besant - Arabists - 1883 - 464 pages
...with many pleasing and novel conceits — Now the night of youth is over, and grey-headed dawn is neat Fare ye well ye tender meetings with the friends I...silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies youth had hidden out of sight. It is seldom that we see a metaphor so well... | |
| Stanley Lane-Poole - Architecture - 1886 - 390 pages
...Palmer. (Cambridge, 1877.) time, life at Cairo in the thirteenth century was not without its savour : — Well ! the night of youth is over, and grey-headed...pleasant merry song ; Still I love the ancient tryst, though the trysting time is o'er, And the tender maid that ne'er may yield to my caresses more ; Still... | |
| Stanley Lane-Poole - Cairo (Egypt) - 1898 - 358 pages
...fairly represented his time, life at Cairo in the thirteenth century was not without its savour : — Well ! the night of youth is over, and grey-headed...hidden out of sight. Yet though age is stealing o'er mo, still I love the festive throng, Still I love a pleasant fellow and a pleasant merry song ; Still... | |
| Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī - 1903 - 180 pages
...cannot resist the temptation of quoting it here: " Now the night of youth is over and the gray head dawn is near, Fare ye well ye tender meetings, with the...silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies youth has hidden out of sight." Of course Zoheir expands and Abu'1-Ala only... | |
| 402 pages
...him with many pleasing and novel conceits — Now the night of youth is over, and grey headed dawn is near, Fare ye well ye tender meetings with the...silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies youth had hidden out of sight It is seldom that we see a metaphor so well carried... | |
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