They sleep well here whom Allah loved and kept            And treasured in his vineyard fair and fine,    Most lustrous of the Orient pearls that shine,            Which youth found…

    In Spring of love and life, My Polish Rose,            You faded and forgot the joy of youth;    Bright butterfly, it brushed you, then left ruth            Of bitter memory…

    Across sea-meadows measureless I go,            My wagon sinking under grass so tall    The flowery petals in foam on me fall,            And blossom-isles float by I do not know.    No…

    On Juda’s Cliff I love to lean and look            On waves that battling beat and break with might,    While farther seaward in a bland delight,            I see them…

  (Pilgrim)     What would Great Allah with the frozen sea?            Would he of icy clouds a throne carve bright,    Or would the demons of the deepest night            A bar…

    The flag is listless, limp. It dances not.            As deep the sea breathes from a gentle breast    As any bride who dreams at love’s behest,            And wakes and…

    Give wings unto the storm, and spurs to steed,            I’d move unchained as wind across the world,    Sweep onward like a torrent mountain-hurled,            Nor sea, nor height, nor…

    From out the mosques the pious wend their way;            Muezzin voices tremble through the night;    Within the sky the pallid King of Light            Wraps silvered ermine round him…

   In ruin are the spacious, splendid halls            With frozen forest of white columns where    The Tartar Khan his palace builded fair,            Where loneliest the shrilling cricket calls.    The ivy…

    The drooping, weary day night pushed aside;            On Tschatir Dagh the sullen sun and low    Paints phantom purple upon ancient snow;            While forest ways within, the wanderers hide.    Night…