 Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.  The Oriental Rug Book - Page xixby Mary Churchill Ripley - 1904 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 pages
...ride, Wer't not a Shame — wer't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide ? XLY. 'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest. XL VI.... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...ride, Wer't not a Shame — wer't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide? ILV. "Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest. XL VI.... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - 1883 - 248 pages
...without exprei,'sing anything. You know what Omar says of life: — GOETHE'S PROMENADE, WEIMER. " ' Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest, A sultan to the realm of Death addressed, The sultan rises, and the dark farrash Strikes and prepares it for another guest. A moment's halt,... | |
 | 1909 - 670 pages
...peculiar and important interview, Mrs. Kerr realized the validity of the quatrain of Omar Khayyam: " 'Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of death addresst ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Perrash Strikes and prepares it for another guest." The Ferrash... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...Wer't not a Shame — wer't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide ? XLV ' T is but a Tent -where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrdsh Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest. XLV I... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 136 pages
...Wer't not a Shame — wer't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide ? XLV 'T is but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest. XLVI And... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - 1889 - 258 pages
...Orientalism has often struck me," Algernon replied. " Do you remember how Omar Khayyam speaks of life ? "' 'Tis but a tent, where takes his one day's rest A sultan to the realm of Death addrest. The sultan rises, and the darkfarasft Strikes, and prepares it for another guest. A moment's... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1893 - 458 pages
...poem speaks of the ephemeral nature of the human form, and of the record made in life for good or ill. 'Tis but a Tent, where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest. The Moving... | |
 | 1893 - 930 pages
...parallel from the hopeless gloom of Omar, which in Fitzgerald's version runs thus : — " 'T is bnt a tent, where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest ; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes and prepares it for another Guest." Foster.... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1894 - 280 pages
...another parallel from the hopeless gloom of Omar, which in Fitzgerald's version runs thus : — " 'T is but a tent, where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash '. Strikes and prepares it for another Guest." Foster.... | |
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