AND oh! what odours the voluptuous vale Scatters from jasmine bowers, From yon rose wilderness, From cluster'd henna, and from orange groves That with such perfume fill the breeze, As Peris to their sister bear, When from the summit of some lofty tree She hangs, engaged, the captive of the Dives. They from their pinions shake The sweetness of celestial flowers; And as her enemies impure From that impetuous poison far away Fly groaning with the torment, she the while Inhales her fragrant food. Such odours flow'd upon the world, When at Mohammed's nuptials, word Went forth in heaven to roll The everlasting gates of paradise Back on their living hinges, that its gales Might visit all below: the general bliss Thrill'd every bosom, and the family Of man, for once, partook a common joy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AS THE NEW YEAR [18 B.C.] DAWNED by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS BOTHWELL: PART 6 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN SUNDERED PATHS by MATHILDE BLIND A HOUSE IN FESTUBERT by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN NIGHT ON OUR LIVES by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: IBN KOLTHUM by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |