 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 400 Seiten
...lips," a familiar oriental figure for the approach of death. Note F. ii. 46, v. 43 : And, proffering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink ; and hundreds of quotable passages from the Persian poets ; as, for instance, in the Gulistan, chap. i.... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1898 - 130 Seiten
...— Yes; Think then you are TO-DAY what YESTERDAY You were — TO-MORROW you shall not be less. XLIII So when the Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river -brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 596 Seiten
...! " Think, then, you are To-day what Yesterday You were — To-morrow you shall be not less. XLI1I. So when the Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you at the river-brink, And offering his cup invite your Soul Forth to your lip to quaff — you shall... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 564 Seiten
...then you are TO-DAY what YKSTERDAY You were—TO-MORROW you shall not be less. XLIII. So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not... | |
 | Myrtle Reed - 1899 - 188 Seiten
...desolate and alone. One of the quatrains in the "Rubaiyat" has been singing itself over and over — " So when the Angel of the Darker Drink At last shall...Forth to your lips to quaff — you shall not shrink." If that gracious Angel were to offer his Cup to me, how gladly would I drink it ! I would turn away... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1899 - 478 Seiten
...Think then you are To-day what Yesterday You were — To-morrow you shall not be less. So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by...Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink. Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1899 - 192 Seiten
...&J.\)) /I (.£&. 0102. i ».«., " Let us cease striving to earn salvation." 5—2 XLIII. So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by...Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink. Khayyam, if thou art drunk with wine,1 be happy, If thou reposest with one tulip-cheeked, be happy,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 464 Seiten
...Think then you are To-day what Yesterday You were — To-morrow you shall not be less. So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by...Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink. Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...then you are TO-DAY what YESTERDAY You were — TO-MORROW you shall not be less. XLIII. So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1900 - 160 Seiten
...Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine." — TENNYSON. (e) " So when the Angel of the darker Drink At last shall...Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink." — FITZGERALD. (a) is the old ballad metre — iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.... | |
| |
So when the Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff — you shall not shrink. 
