Payne John
John Payne (1842 - 1917) was an English poet and translator, from Devon. Initially he pursued a legal career, and associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later he became involved with limited edition publishing, and the Villon Society. He is best known for his translation of the Diwan Hafez and praises Hafez as the greatest poet of the world.[1] He has also known for his translation of Boccaccio's Decameron and The Arabian Nights.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A BIRTHDAY SONG. TTHE rose-time and the roses Call to me, dove of mine; I hear the birdsong-closes Ring out in the sunshine; In all the wood-reposes There runs a magic wine Of music all divine. All things have scent and singing; The happy earth is ringing With praise of love and June : Have I alone no tune, No sound of music-making To greet my love's awaking This golden summer noon ? Ah, love! my roses linger For sunshine of thine eyes; For Love the music-bringer, My linnets wait to rise ; All dumb are birds and singer: The song in kisses dies And sound of happy sighs. What need of songs and singing, When love for us is ringing Bells of enchanted gold ? Dear, whilst my arms enfold My love, our kisses fashion Tunes of more perfect passion Than verses new or old. VIRELAY. A S I sate sorrowing, Love came and bade me sing A joyous song and meet: For see (said he) each thing Is merry for the Spring, And every bird doth greet The break of blossoming, That all the woodlands ring Unto the young hours' feet . Wherefore put off defeat And rouse thee to repeat The chime of merles that go, With flutings shrill and sweet, In every green retreat, The tune of streams that flow And mark the young hours' beat With running ripples fleet And breezes soft and low. For who should have, I trow, Such joyance in the glow And pleasance of the May In all sweet bells that blow, In death of winter's woe And birth of Springtide gay, When in wood-walk and row Hand-link'd the lovers go As he to whom alway God giveth, day by day, To set to roundelay The sad and sunny hours To weave into a lay Life's golden years and grey, Its sweet and bitter flowers To sweep, with hands that stray In many a devious way, I... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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hamid the luckless and other tales in verse
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Originally published in 1904. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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flowers of france the romantic period hugo to leconte de lisle representative
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Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: He sbows and " Now Allah be blessed !" men say : " Extol we hi Maker and Fashioner aye 1 The king of the fair1 this is, snre, one and til; Ay, his thralls, every one, and his liegemen are they." The boy grew and flourished till he came to the age of five years, when his father the Sultan assigned him a governor skilled and versed in all sciences and philosophies, and he proceeded to teach him till he excelled in all manner of knowledge and became a young man.' Then the Sultan bade bring him before himself, and assembling all the grandees of his realm and the chiefs of his subjects, proceeded to admonish him before them, saying to him, " O my sqn Zein ul Asnam, behold, I am grown stricken in years and am presently sick; and belike this sickness will be the last of my life in this world and thou shall sit in my stead; [wherefore I desire to admonish thee]. Beware, 0 my son, lest thou oppress any or turn a deaf ear to the complaining of the poor; but do thou justify, the oppressed after the measure of thy might. And look thou believe not all that shall be said to thee by the great ones of the people, but trust 1 Milak, plural ofmeliA, a fair one. 1 Kkemseh seniu. Burton, "fifteen." 1 SAati, adult, man between sixteen and thirty. chapter{Section 4them still for the most part to the voice of the common folk; for the great will deceive thee, seeing they seek that which befitteth themselves, not that which befitteth the subject." Then, after a few days, the Sultan's sickness redoubled on him and he accomplished his term and died; and as for his son Zein ul Asnam, he arose and donning the raiment of woe, [mourned] for his father the space of six days. On the seventh day he arose and going forth to the Divan, sat down on the throne of the sultanate and held a court, wh...
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