 On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.  Works - Page 61by Sir William Jones - 1807Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung. From the Persian. On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...us how to live; and — oh, too high A price for knowledge! — tanght us hew to die. — TICEELL. On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around theo smiled; So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...thought, and every deed, May hold within itself tho seed Of future good and future meed. RM MILNES. So live that sinking in thy last, long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. So in the passing of a day doth pass The bud and blossom of the life of... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 982 pages
...The proceeds of the whole amounted to £6. THOMAS WIKSTOM. FROM THE PERSIAN.— BY SIB W. JONES. " On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou ma/st smile while all around thee... | |
 | 1863 - 830 pages
...When I offer'd myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted and called me an ugly old fellow." 1 " On parent knees a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...Persian by Sir William Jones : — " On Parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smil'd, So live, that, sinking in...Calm thou may'st smile, when all around thee weep." CAN GYNTAF HOEACE. Amrywiaeth tueddiadan dynion, a dewislad y Bardd. 0 M^ICRNAS, hil brenhinoedd, (Ti... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1864 - 872 pages
...is in the right.' " Then, alluding to the following from the Persian poet Hafiz, — ' On parent's knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled : So live, that, sinking in the last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, whilst all around thee... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - English Poetry - 1865 - 364 pages
...fragment, translated by Sir William Jones from the Persian, has long been familiar to thousands : — " On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled : So live that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile while all around thee... | |
 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted and called me an ugly old fellow.' FROM THE PERSIAN. ' On parent knees a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...myself, whom those graces adorn, You flouted and called me an ugly old fellow.' FROM THE PERSIAN. ' On parent knees a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled. So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thce... | |
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