Edwin Arnold Poems

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1.
Destiny

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours
For one lone soul another lonely soul
Each choosing each through all the weary hours
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2.
Almond Blossom

Blossom of the almond trees,
April's gift to April's bees,
Birthday ornament of Spring,
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3.
After Death In Arabia

He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all his friends:
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4.
Hagar In The Wilderness

A weary waste of blank and barren land,
A lonely, lonely sea of shifting sand,
A golden furnace gleaming overhead,
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5.
The Light Of Asia: Book The Third

In which calm home of happy life and love
Ligged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,
Nor want, nor pain, nor plague, nor age, nor death,
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6.
A Song

Once - and only once - you gave
One rich gift, which Memory
Shuts within itself, to save
Sweet and fresh, while life may be:
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7.
The Fairy's Promise

Poet.
Beautiful silver-winged spirits of good,
That hide in the leaves of the loneliest wood;
Green-kirtled fairies whom none may see
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8.
The Faithfulness Of Buddha

Thenceforth alone the long-armed monarch strode,
Not looking back,--nay, not for Bhima's sake,--But
walking with his face set for the mount;
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9.
Academe

Pleasanter than the hills of Thessaly,
Nearer and dearer to the poet's heart
Than the blue ripple belting Salamis,
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10.
An Apology

Our name should be a name for hope to utter,
A watchword for the chosen of the land;
A bloodless nation-flag, beneath whose flutter
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