Myrtle and Myrrh

❧

AMEEN RIHANI




Myrtle and Myrrh

by

Ameen Rihani

Translator of
"The Quatrains of Abu'l-Ala"


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Boston: Richard G. Badger
The Gorham Press 1905




Copyright 1905 by Ameen Rihani
All rights reserved


Printed at
The Gorham Press,
Boston, U. S. A.

To my sisters
SAADA AND ADELE

CONTENTS

Salaam
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5
Ever To Be
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9
Upon the Peak of Sanneen
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10
The Philistine
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12
My Bornoose
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13
A Spring Dirge
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14
Fardi wa Nafli
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15
Adele
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17
Nectar and Blood
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18
Resurrection
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20
Disarmed Desire
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21
A Better Woe
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22
The First and Last
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23
In the Meadow
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24
O, Sweet Sometime
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25
A Bed of Flame
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26
The Sister of Death
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26
Retribution
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27
Let Thine Eyes Whisper
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27
Lilatu Laili
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28
Midnight Mood
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29
Thy Smile
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31
Unadorned
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32
Dissolution
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32
A Serenade
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33
The Brass Bed
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34
Three Golden Threads
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35
Independent Blossoms
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36
The God of my Goddess
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36
A Peasant's Song
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37
Her First Sorrow
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39
A Nocturn
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40
Saada
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41
Stolen Salvias
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42
Jealousy
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43
Beneath the Salvias
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43
Gone with the Swallows
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44
To the Sonnet
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45
The Tomb and the Rose
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46
Rest
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46
The Fruits of Death
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48
The "Flatiron" and the Ruins of Palmyra
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48
It was All for Him
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49
Repentance
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50
O, Give me Strength to Take
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51
Written After Reading King Lear
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52
Near the Cascades
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53
Onward Keep
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55
Allah wa Ana
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56
In Memory of E. M. El-K
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57
To Abu'l-Ala
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59

Myrtle and Myrrh


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