 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 páginas
...with Dust. xxvi. Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk ; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is...Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. XX VJI. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 páginas
...Paradise to stand. Alack, I doubt the Prophet's Paradise Were empty as the hollow of one's Hand. LXVI. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing...certain and the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once is blown for ever dies. LXVII. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 páginas
...trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup — when crumbled into Dust ! LXIII. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing...Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. LXIV. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through Not... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 páginas
...Persia, who died early in the twelth century, thus speaks of life : — " One thing is certain, that life flies ; One thing is certain, and the rest is...lies ; The flower that once has blown for ever dies." Again — " There was a door to which I found no key, There was a veil past which I could not see ;... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 páginas
...splendid poetry. ' Oh ! throats of hell and hopes of paradise ! One thing »t least is certain — thii life flies. One thing is certain, and the rest is...lies. The flower that once has blown for ever dies. " Strange, is it not? that, of the myriads who Before us passed the door of darkness through. Not one... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1878 - 568 páginas
...verses by way of* specimen of Omar Khayyam's mode of unravelling the " master knot of human fate." Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise, One thing...lies ; The flower that once has blown for ever dies. The revelations of devout and learn'd Who rose before us, and as prophets bnrn'd, Are all but stories,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 páginas
...Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup — when crumbled into Dust ! LXIII. \ O threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise ! One thing...the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown forever dies. LXIV. \ / f Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who r / / 1 Before us pass'd the... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 páginas
...trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup — when crumbled into Dust ! LXIII. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; LXIT. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 páginas
...trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup — when crumbled into Dust ! LXIII. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; OMAR KHAY5TAM. 17 LXIV. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | 1879 - 820 páginas
...It is the last which has the genuine Khayam flavour. Mr. Fitzgerald's No. 69 (of the 1872 edition) : Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness Not one return* to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too — is rather the expression... | |
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Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain— This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. 
