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27 words in pretence of conversation ; thine eyes hard shut lest thou shouldst see thy lover move and perhaps (oh, worst of woes !), frighten him from thee ; fearful, oh ! infinitely fearful lest he should not love thee after all, soft words (oh, the burning cheeks, the bitten lips !) whose hidden fire shall kindle the great blaze ? How talk with thee, whose quickened hearing has not known him creep ever closer, yet afraid to touch thee, has not heard the rushing of his heart, the shortening of his breath ? How talk, if thou have not felt one t…
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…the size of a spaniel, with a long twisted tail. DIRALISEN — A snake with six feet. Its head is like that of an enormous ferret, and the eyes very red. LICAMEN — A very small long-eared monkey. DUNIRAG — Like a sheep with the mange. It has straight horns and four black legs : the wool is in knots and patches. ELPONEN — A whitish long-haired mouse. ERGAMEN — A big black hairy spider. GOTIFAN — A bat of light colour and red mixed. NIMORUP — A stunted dwarf with large head and ears. His lips are greeny-bronze and slobbery. CARELENA — A long-beaked…
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
…ONS O Habib, I have compared thy figure to the cy- press, and to a thousand other beautifully shapen things. Also I have said that thine eyes were like the sun for splendour ; and like the gazelle’s eyes for depth and softness ; many other things very well composed have I sung concerning thee.1 I have even compared the perfume of thy podex to that of the rose, and I take Allah to witness that this is not so, except by favour of Him in whom all is One.2 I was faithful and diligent in love, and worshipped thee above all save Him to whom alone wor…
1910 · PDF PAGE 98
… an aphrodisiac. In China the jinseng of Sze-chuan and Korea is most esteemed. That of America is not so good, in the fatherland-dizzied eyes of the Celestial. [See note to IXth Ghazal. Ed.] 3. Suleiman — our King Solomon, as historical as King Brahmadatta, who reigned 120,000 years in Benares. 4. Isa — Jesus. Muslim hold that a phantom was crucified in the place of Jesus. See Q’uran III. 5. Gold — noon, not sunrise, or sunset, whose colours are rose and grey. A question of clinome- ter.
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22 and yearn in utter worship towards the all-glorious one, not daring to raise my eyes to yonder rosy shaft of Parian stone. The love in my heart melts all the winter of my body, and the warm salt spring gush from my eyes upon the ground — surely the latter spring shall see green violets grow thereon ! Then, in the hush of the sunset, come noiseless hoofs treading the enamelled turf ; and ere I know it a fierce lithe hairy body has gripped mine, and the dread wand of magic shudders it live way into my being, so that the foundations of my soul …
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…; the slaves await the master’s word ; My huqqa2 smoke to heaven curls, laden with maddening cannabis.3 I feel upon my jasmine-jar these eyes ; this brain its beauty knows, Its perfume roused to ecstasy by cunning strain of ambergris.4 Above, Habib my lover hangs ; his podex is the jasmine-jar ; His lips are softly closed on mine, one long unfa- thomable kiss. All, all is rapture ; who would shift one inch all mystery to disclose ? A fool is he who queries Quid ? till baffled by the question Quis ?5
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…Qahar will ever sing, Till he the world from milk of prayer to wine of me- ditation wean.7 Like peacocks in a garden spread our thousand eyes of jewel-sheen ; Though squawking with an eunuch’s voice, our paederastic plumes we preen.8 For voice is sound, and dies with air ; light is co- excellent with God9 ; As Hate’s a poison for delight, so love’s a physic for the spleen. And El Qahar is Truth, and nought but Allah stuffs his gaberdine,10 And Allah windeth he about with tarband gemmed11 of gold and green.12
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…ncil with Husein-i-Abdal1 as to what it were fitting to do ; and he bade me look upon my member, whether it were one or two. Now then my eyes gave the lie to my hand ; but rushing upon thee like a bull, I did pe- netrate to the core of thy being ; and great joy overcoming me I fell down, assured that there was but one. Thus it is with the unbeliever3 and his three gods ; but whoso knoweth Allah knoweth Him to be one. For all that, Habib, it is a great pity that thou art not double as to thy podex ; I could more easily understand and excuse thy …
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…A small light crested yellow bird, iridescent under the throat. AROGOR — A black vulture with human ears, a very long beak, and very red eyes. HOLASTRI — An enormous pink bug. HACUMUBI — A monkey, black, with long hair and a white face. SAMALO — An altogether black undersized ram with very long curling horns lying back along its back. PLISON — Has two very thin legs, a black big belly, and arms stretched up and behind its very large and long seal’s head. The mouth is hu- man and enormous. RADERAF — Has a rhinoceros’ head but the roof of the hea…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…ith this Takhallus. See note 2. 8. This and the following stanzas seem inconse- quent. But they contain profound allusions. The thousand eyes of the peacock’s tail are equivalent to the thousand petals of the Sahasrara lotus in India ; the divine lotus that only exists as a throne
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
… planet Jupiter. Most nations seem to attribute a blue or violet colour to it ; for mystical reasons, doubtless, but also because (to my eyes at least) it actually has that colour. 6. I suspect, maugre Mahbub’s head, that this is “ writ sarcastic.” The pompous old dullard must have seemed to our lively Abdullah very much as Southey did to Byron. Yet the Eastern is a terrible slave to convention, and may perhaps acquiesce in Hafiz as the undergraduate of to-day acquiesces in Milton. 7. The central thought of these two chapters is represented in …
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…mit of the world ? ” Why, to kiss my boy is a canzonet, to suck him off a sonnet ; his mouth is a madrigal, his lips are lyrics, and his eyes idylls ; to be be-
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…hat is it then, that I love, O my God, when I love you ? It is not beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes, nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the va- ried harmony of sweet songs nor the aroma of per- fumes and sweet flowers, nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No, it is more than these that
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… One mystic grace one symbol ’ ; and if he have but the wit to interpret this simple cipher, the whole secret of the East is open to our eyes. In the notes (which I have by no means stinted) I have indicated clearly to what each allusion refers ; and it is within the capacity of any reader of ordinary intelligence to erect a complete system of philosophy, practical and transcendental, on these sound if slender foundations. True, Abdullah approaches Calvin