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    The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
    The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
    The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
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    The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems

    By E. Powys (Edward Powys) Mathers

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Garden of Bright Waters One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems - E. Powys (Edward Powys) Mathers

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Garden of Bright Waters, by Various

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      Title: The Garden of Bright Waters

      One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems

      Author: Various

      Translator: Edward Powys Mathers

      Posting Date: December 11, 2011 [EBook #9920]

      Release Date: February, 2006

      First Posted: October 31, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GARDEN OF BRIGHT WATERS ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Susan Woodring, Tom Allen

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      The Garden Of Bright Waters

      One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems

      Translated by Edward Powys Mathers 1920

      Dedication: To My Wife

      INTRODUCTION

      Head in hand, I look at the paper leaf;

      It is still white.

      I look at the ink

      Dry on the end of my brush.

      My soul sleeps.

      Will it ever wake?

      I walk a little in the pouring of the sun

      And pass my hands over the higher flowers.

      There is the soft green forest,

      There are the sweet lines of the mountains

      Carved with snow, red in the sunlight.

      I see the slow march of the clouds,

      I hear the crows jeering, and I come back

      To sit and look at the paper leaf,

      Which is still white

      Under my brush.

      From the Chinese of Chang-Chi (770-850).

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      AFGHANISTAN (PUS'HTO)

      The Princess of Qulzum

      Come, my Beloved!

      Ballade of Muhammad Khan

      Ghazal of Tavakkul

      Ghazal of Sayyid Kamal

      Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad

      Ghazal of Pir Muhammad

      Ballade of Nurshali

      Ghazal of Muhammad Din Tilai

      Micra

      Ballade of Muhammad Din Tilai

      Ghazal of Mira

      Ghazal of Majid Shah

      Ghazal of Mira

      Ballade of Ajam the Washerman

      Ghazal of Isa Akhun Zada

      ANNAM

      The Bamboo Garden

      Stranger Things have Happened

      Nocturne

      The Gao Flower

      The Girl of Ke-Mo

      The Little Woman of Clear River

      Waiting to Marry a Student

      A Song for Two

      ARABIC

      Sand

      Two Similes

      Melodian

      The Lost Lady

      Love Brown and Bitter

      Okhouan

      Lying Down Alone

      Old Greek Lovers

      Night and Morning

      In a Yellow Frame

      Because the Good are Never Fair

      White and Green and Black Tears

      A Conceit

      Values

      What Love Is

      The Dancing Heart

      The Great Offence

      An Escape

      Three Queens

      Her Nails

      Perturbation at Dawn

      The Resurrection of the Tattooed Girl

      Moallaka of Antar

      Moallaka of Amr Ebn Kultum

      BALUCHISTAN

      Comparisons

      BURMA

      A Canker in the Heart

      CAMBODIA

      Disquiet

      CAUCASUS

      Vengeance

      The Flight

      CHINA

      We were Two Green Rushes

      Song Writer Paid with Air

      The Bad Road

      The Western Window

      In Lukewarm Weather

      Written on White Frost

      A Flute of Marvel

      The Willow-Leaf

      A Poet Looks at the Moon

      We Two in a Park at Night

      The Jade Staircase

      The Morning Shower

      A Virtuous Wife

      Written on a Wall in Spring

      A Poet Thinks

      In the Cold Night

      DAGHESTAN

      Winter Comes

      GEORGIA

      Part of a Ghazal

      HINDUSTAN

      Fard

      Incurable

      A Poem

      Fard

      Mortification

      Fard

      JAPAN

      Grief and the Sleeve

      Drink Song

      A Boat Comes In

      The Opinion of Men

      Old Scent of the Plum-tree

      An Orange Sleeve

      Invitation

      The Clocks of Death

      Green Food for a Queen

      The Cushion

      A Single Night

      At a Dance of Girls

      Alone One Night

      KAFIRISTAN

      Walking up a Hill at Dawn

      Proposal of Marriage

      KAZACKS

      You do not Want Me, Zohrah

      KOREA

      Tears

      The Dream

      Separation

      KURDISTAN

      Paradise

      LAOS

      Misadventure

      Khap-Salung

      The Holy Swan

      MANCHURIA

      Fire and Love

      Hearts of Women

      PERSIA

      To His Love instead of a Promised Picture Book

      Too Short a Night

      The Roses

      I Asked my Love

      A Request

      See You Have Dancers

      SIAM

      The Sighing Heart

      SYRIA

      Handing over the Gun

      TATARS

      Honey

      THIBET

      The Love of the Archer Prince

      TURKESTAN

      Distich

      Things Seen in Battle

      Hunter's Song

      TURKEY

      The Bath

      Distich

      A Proverb

      ENVOY IN AUTUMN

      TRANSLATOR'S NOTES

      The Garden Of Bright Waters

      AFGHANISTAN

      THE PRINCESS OF QULZUM

      (BALLADE BY NUR UDDIN)

      I have seen a small proud face brimming with sunlight;

      I have seen the daughter of the King of Qulzum passing from grace to grace.

      Yesterday she threw her bed on the floor of her double house

      And laughed with a thousand graces.

      She has a little pearl and coral cap

      And rides in a palanquin with servants about her

      And claps her hands, being too proud to call.

      I have seen a small proud face brimming with sunlight.

      "My palanquin is truly green and blue;

      I fill the world with pomp and take my pleasure;

      I make men run up and down before me,

      And am not as young a girl as you pretend.

      I am of Iran, of a powerful house, I am pure steel.

      I hear that I am spoken of in Lahore."

      I have seen a small proud face brimming with sunlight.

      I

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