| Women's National Indian Association - 1883 - 818 pages
...year before us, let us carry in our minds and hearts these words of Persia.'s poet, Omar Khayyam, " The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the wing." And, as each day, each hour, each minute is bornfor eternity, and carries on before us only what we... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 pages
...it."J Come, fill the dip, and in the fire of Spring, Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling; Tlie Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. Whether at Nnishapur or Babylon ; Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter nin, The Wine of Life keeps... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...incarnadine. VII Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. • VIII Whether at Naishdpur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, VIII And look—a... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...incarnadine. VII Come, fill tlie Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling : The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. VIII Whether at Naishdpiir or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1888 - 138 pages
...incarnadine. (vn) Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling : The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing... | |
| Ellen Olney Kirk - 1888 - 528 pages
...fill the cup, and In the fire of Spring Your winter garment of repentance fliug! The bird of Time lias but a little way To flutter — and the bird is on the wing. " Whether at NaisMpur or Babylon, Whether the cup with sweet or bitter run, The wine of Life keeps... | |
| 1889 - 914 pages
...faithful friend. "'ALMY.' " Two wavering strokes of a pencil on the enfolding page marked the lines, — "The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter. And the Bird is on the wing." " Meredith," said Brownell, after I had ceased speaking, " you have let me into a psychological problem,... | |
| 1906 - 554 pages
...Khayyam? — ' Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling : The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. ' Though Whitman has something in common with most of these poets, he has a distinctive point of view... | |
| Robert Montgomery Bird, Frederic Mayer Bird - 1889 - 174 pages
...faithful friend. " ' ALMY.' " Two wavering strokes of a pencil on the enfolding page marked the lines, — "The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter. And the Bird is on the wing." " Meredith," said Brownell, after I had ceased speaking, " you have let me into a psychological problem,... | |
| Omar Khayyam - 1890 - 164 pages
...to'incarnadine. VII. Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling : The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing. VIII. Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps... | |
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