of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi – Sir Richard Burton
admin THE KASÎDAH V — • — The dreadest sound man’s ear can hear, the war and rush of stormy Wind Depures the stuff of human life, breeds health and strength for humankind: What call ye them or Goods or Ills, ill-goods, good-ills, a loss, a gain, When realms arise and falls a roof; a world … Read more
THE KASÎDAH V — • — What conscience has the murd’erous Moor, who slays his guest with felon blow, Save sorrow he can slay no more, what prick of pen’itence can he know? You cry the “Cruelty of Things” is myst’ery to your purblind eye, Which fixed upon a point in space the general project … Read more
THE KASÎDAH V — • — Who fought for female as for food when Mays awoke to warm desire; And such the Lust that grew to Love when Fancy lent a purer fire. Where then “Th’ Eternal nature-law by God engraved on human heart?” Behold his simiad sconce and own the Thing could play no … Read more
THE KASÎDAH V — • — Yon glorious Sun, the greater light, the “Bridegroom” of the royal Lyre, A flaming, boiling, bursting mine; a grim black orb of whirling fire: That gentle Moon, the lesser light, the Lover’s lamp, the Swain’s delight, A ruined world, a globe burnt out, a corpse upon the road of … Read more
THE KASÎDAH V — • — For Man’s Free-will immortal Law, Anagkê, Kismet, Des’tiny read That was, that is, that aye shall be, Star, Fortune, Fate, Urd, Norn or Need. “Man’s nat’ural state is God’s design;” such is the silly sage’s theme; “Man’s primal Age was Age of Gold;” such is the Poet’s waking dream: … Read more
THE KASÎDAH V — • — THERE is no Good, there is no Bad; these be the whims of mortal will: What works me weal that call I ‘good,’ what harms and hurts I hold as ‘ill:’ They change with place, they shift with race; and, in the veriest span of Time, Each Vice has … Read more
THE KASÎDAH IV — • — “Who now of ancient Kayomurs, of Zâl or Rustam cares to sing, “Whelmed by the tempest of the tribes that called the Camel-driver King? “Where are the crown of Kay Khusraw, the sceptre of Anûshirwân, “The holy grail of high Jamshîd, Afrâsiyab’s hall?—Canst tell me, man? “Gone, gone, where … Read more
THE KASÎDAH IV — • — “Yea, Pan was dead, the Nazar’ene came and seized his seat beneath the sun, “The votary of the Riddle-god, whose one is three and three is one; “Whose sadd’ening creed of herited Sin spilt o’er the world its cold grey spell; “In every vista showed a grave, and ’neath … Read more
THE KASÎDAH IV — • — “Amid the high Chaldean hills a moulder of the heavenly spheres; “On Guebre steppes the Timeless-God who governs by his dual peers: “In Hebrew tents the Lord that led His leprous slaves to fight and jar; “Yahveh,* Adon or Elohîm, the God that smites, the Man of War. “The … Read more
THE KASÎDAH IV — • — “You pray, but hath your thought e’er weighed how empty vain the prayer must be, “That begs a boon already giv’en, or craves a change of law to see? “Say, Man, deep learnèd in the Scheme that orders mysteries sublime, “How came it this was Jesus, that was Judas … Read more