 Nay, was its blaze, or the lamps of a hermit that dwells alone, and pours o'er the twisted wicks the oil from his slender cruse? We sat there my fellows and I twixt Darij and al-'Udhaib, and gazed as the distance gloomed, and waited its oncoming. The...  Sir William Jones, 1746-94: A Commemoration - Page 82by William Jones - 2006 - 169 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1912 - 1450 pages
...o'er the twisted wicks the oil from his slender cruse? We sat there, my fellows and I, 'twixt Darij and al-'Udhaib, and gazed as the distance gloomed,...oncoming. The right of its mighty rain advanced over Qatan's ridge ; the left of its trailing skirt swept Yadhbul and as-Sitiir: Then over Kutaifah's steep... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1912 - 1308 pages
...o'er the twisted wicks the oil from his slender cruse ? We sat there, my fellows and I, 'twixt Darij and al-'Udhaib, and gazed as the distance gloomed,...oncoming. The right of its mighty rain advanced over Qatan's ridge ; the left of its trailing skirt swept Yadhbul and as-Sitar: Then over Kutaifah's steep... | |
 | George Adam Smith - Hebrew poetry - 1912 - 126 pages
...o'er the twisted wicks the oil from his slender cruse ? We sat there, my fellows and I, 'twixt Darij and al-'Udhaib, and gazed as the distance gloomed,...oncoming. The right of its mighty rain advanced over Jfatan's ridge, the left of its trailing skirt swept Yadhbul and as-Sitar ; Then over Kutaifah's steep... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 698 pages
...o'er the twisted wicks the oil from his slender cruse ? We sat there, my fellows and I, 'twixt Darij and al-Udhaib, and gazed as the distance gloomed,...before its storm the tall trees were borne to ground ; 677 And the drift of its waters passed o'er the crags of al-Kanan, and drave forth the white-legged... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1920 - 836 pages
...of hands in the pillar of crowned cloud. We sat there, my fellows and I, 'twixt Daraj and Al-Udaibh, And gazed as the distance gloomed and waited its on-coming....Then over Kutaifah's steep the flood of its onset drove And headlong before the storm the tall trees were borne to ground ; And Taimd — it left not... | |
 | Eunice Tietjens - American poetry - 1928 - 408 pages
...o'er the twisted wicks the oil from his slender cruse? We sat there, my fellows and I, twixt Darij and al-Udhaib, and gazed as the distance gloomed,...before its storm the tall trees were borne to ground; Imru-al-Kais was the greatest of the poets of the " Ignorance," or the period, before Mohammed, and... | |
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