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" 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. "
Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones - Page 266
by John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 531 pages
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...TRUMBULL. 255 On parent knees, a. naked new-born child Weeping them sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. Prom thc Persian. What constitutes a state ? Odc in Imitation ofAlemis....
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Outlook and Independent, Volume 70

1902 - 1058 pages
...to. 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. The date was somewhere between 1746 and 1794. WC DOANE. Albany, NY [We...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 147

1870 - 784 pages
...Hafez : On parents' 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 may'st smile, while all around thee weep. BRADY'S FOUR ACRES OF BOG. BT FELIX M'CABE. I. TEE PHULIPSZS. HAVE you...
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Cues from All Quarters, Or, The Literary Musings of a Clerical Recluse

Francis Jacox - 1871 - 358 pages
...Hafez : On parents' 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 may'st smile, while all around thee weep. A Good Listener, 236-51 A Gouty Subject, 273-95 About Contradictory People,...
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The mother's book of poetry, selected by Mrs. A. Gatty

Mother - 1872 - 366 pages
...Wither. N parent knee, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, whilst all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, whilst all around thee weep. From the Persian of Sadi, by Sir W. Jones. SEVEN TIMES SIX. GIVING IN...
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A commonplace book of epigrams analytically arranged, Issue 426

Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...Persian. Ox 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 may'st smile, while all around thee weep. From the Greeh. THRACIANS! who howl around an infant's birth, And give...
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The book of birthdays, Issue 339

Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 pages
...verse : — 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 may'st smile, while all around thee weep. Looking on this new-born child, does not the heart say — Joy thou bring'st,...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...PEKSIAN. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; . while all around theo weep. Sir W. Jones.— Born 1746, Died 1794. 1014.— THE BEOWN JUG. Dear Tom,...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...of Hafis. On parent knees, a naked new-horn 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. From the Persian. What constitutes a state ? Men who their duties know,...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...TICKELL. 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.* SIB W. JONES : Pers. Trans. Napoleon. — TSte d'Armee! Sir Walter Raleigh....
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