The Festival of Spring, from the Díván of Jeláleddín Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions, with an Introduction and a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

All Unbelief is Midnight, but Faith the Night-Lamp's glow; Then see that no Thief cometh to steal thy Lamp when low. Our Hope is for the Sunlight, from which the Lamp did shine;...

To Rückert belongs the unfading distinction of having introduced the original form of the Ghazel into European Literature. For this achievement he was particularly qualified by...

In another of Hegel's works—his valuable posthumous 'Lectures on the Philosophy of Art'—he takes up the same subject from the æsthetic point of view, and he deals with it again...

Unto your Fathers, Allah did make known This which they handed down and made your own,— That all who pray My Face may clearly see, I sit exalted high on Heaven's great Throne. A...

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'In Sublimity proper, the best objects and the most splendid forms are used only as a mere ornament of God, and they serve to proclaim the magnificence and glory of the One, bei...