Category: Historical Novels
’Tis eve, and bright through Caymyr’s fragrant trees Spread Ismael’s banners to the wanton breeze; O’er martial camps, and trophied armour blue, The rising moon-beams cast a silvery hue; Lull’d is each ruder wind, so hush’d, and calm, That not a leaf is mov’d on yonder palm, S...
‘Another hour is fled;--a few, few more, ‘And life, and all its sweets, are ever o’er; “’Tis hard in youth’s fair blossom to decay, ‘And, like the dreams of midnight, pass away:...
8. CANTO II.Again, Calliope, my song inspire, And sweep the numbers from my falt’ring lyre; Again the joys of war, and warriors, sing, And wake to life each wild-resounding string; Oh! give...
5. PART II.’Twas day! and all was bright and fair!-- Tis night!--and thunders rend the air;-- The lightning’s blaze illumes the shore;-- In driving hail, the torrents pour. Oh! ’tis a nigh...
7. CANTO I.Awake, my Muse, and o’er my trembling lyre Breath but one spark of that celestial fire, But one bright beam, unconscious of decay, Which shew’d thy bard Parnassus’ flow’ry way;...
1. CANTO I.’Tis eve, and bright through Caymyr’s fragrant trees Spread Ismael’s banners to the wanton breeze; O’er martial camps, and trophied armour blue, The rising moon-beams cast a sil...
4. PART I.Now up the craggy steep ascends A train of vassals, and of friends; Here serf in festive garb array’d, Here hoary sire, here matron staid, Here plumed lord, and blushing maid, S...
6. CANTO I.2. CANTO II.“Let those who rule on Persia’s jewell’d throne, “Be fam’d for love, and gentlest love alone, “Or twine, like Abbas, full of fair renown, “The lover’s myrtle with the warrior’s...