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...LACHIN Y GAIR by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE SISTER'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TRUTH AND SORROW by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY THE VISION OF THE ARCHANGELS by RUPERT BROOKE ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE by VALERY YAKOVLEVICH BRYUSOV A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 15 by THOMAS CAMPION MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: MASQUERS FIRST DANCE by THOMAS CAMPION |