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Title: The Garden of Bright Waters
One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
Author: Translated by Edward Powys Mathers
Release Date: February, 2006 [EBook #9920]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on October 31, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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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 also hear that they speak of you in Lahore,?You walk with a joyous step,?Your nails are red and the palms of your hands are rosy.?A pear-tree with a fresh stem is in your palace gardens,?I would not that your mother should give my pear-tree?To twine with an evil spice-tree or fool banana.?I have seen a small proud face brimming with sunlight.
"The coins that