Nourmahal, an Oriental romance. Vol. 1 of 3

The reader is to suppose that the following romance is related by a story-teller of Cashmere. Itinerant reciters of prose and poetical fictions are still, as is well known to tr...

In no part of our oriental world are there to be found bolder or more picturesque mountain ranges, or a greater variety of climate, fruits, flowers, and animals, than in that tr...

Contentment’s realms no fears invade, No cares annoy, no sorrows shade; There placed secure, in peace we rest, Nor aught demand to make us blest. While pleasure’s gay fantastic...

Thou chastening friend, Adversity! ’tis thine The mental ore to temper and refine, To cast in virtue’s mould the yielding heart, And honour’s polish to the mind impart. Without...

As the day advanced, Suleiman learned from some peasants, who were crossing the mountains on their way home from Karaman, that they had met several groups of armed men proceedin...

Suleiman, keenly marking the quarter whence the voices had come, now proceeded towards it with the greatest anxiety, holding the lamp before him so as to shew its light along th...

“The best thing we can now do for a while,” said Seirami, “until this storm shall blow over, will be to go and live with Kazim in his cottage on the Ilamish. Perhaps, before the...

Alternate hope and fear my days divide: I courted grief, and anguish was my bride. Flow on, sad stream of life! I smile secure: _Thou_ livest; _thou_, the purest of the pure.

Where is the land of smiles and light, Where darkness ne’er one shadow throws, Where, from each beam of skies so bright, The spirit of its Maker flows? This land is not of earth!

Now the battle’s fought with the iron-spiked club, and as they close, with the clenched fist, and the din of war ascendeth to the heavens! They cry, “Pursue! strike! fell to the...

Ye Heavens, for this in showers of sweetness shed Your mildest influence o’er her favoured head! Long may her name, which distant climes shall praise, Live in our notes, and blo...

Kazim could scarcely avoid reproaching himself with extreme imprudence, when, towards the close of his first day’s progress in the desert, he took down Mangeli in his arms from...

See yon fair groves that o’er Amana rise, And with their spicy breath embalm the skies; Where every breeze sheds incense o’er the vales, And every shrub the scent of musk exhale...

Now morning breathed: the scented air was mild, Each meadow blossomed, and each valley smiled; On every shrub the pearly dew-drops hung, On every branch a feathered warbler sung...

Kazim postponed from day to day his application for employment at any of the schools of the capital, until at length, seeing his store of wealth wearing gradually away, he found...

The papers which Fazeel intrusted to Kazim, for the purpose of being duly arranged and copied, were necessarily of great extent, as they embraced copious reports upon the actual...

The death of the subah of Cashmere at length enabled Acbar to confer upon Afkun the command of that important province. The moment the chieftain received his nomination, he said...

The love of a being, composed, like thyself, of water and clay, destroy thy patience and peace of mind; it excites thee, in thy waking hours, with minute beauties, and engages t...

Amongst the earliest companions of the Prince Selim, there was one, named Fereid Bochari, who long continued to possess over the mind of his master an unrivalled influence. He w...

At the end of the street, there advanced before me a damsel, with a fairy’s cheeks, who, in the manner of a pagan, wore her tresses dishevelled over her shoulder, like the sacer...

The sword and the dagger are my fragrant flowers; Contemptible, in my opinion, are the narcissus and the myrtle; Our drink is the blood of our enemies; Our cups their skulls.

The indisposition of the emperor, and the reports of conspiracies with which the capital was for some days inundated, had the effect of diverting the attention of Selim from the...