C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Author Unknown
Poems from Oriental Languages: The Arab Lover to His Mistress
Translation in Dublin University Magazine
and thy glance, so soft and bright,
Is the moonlight of my spirit
in its long and dreary night;
Only flower in my heart’s deserted garden—
only well
In my life’s wide, lonely wilderness—
my gentle-eyed gazelle!
heights, unreached by sighs of mine,
And the moonlight has its mission first
on loftier brows to shine,
And a wealthier hand will cull that
flower—unseal that stainless spring:
May’st thou be happy!—even with him,
while lone I’m wandering.