Download or read book The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore; with a Memoir Volume 5-6 written by Thomas Moore and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...purer part; Which knows ev'n Beauty when half-veil'd is best, ---Like her own radiant planet of the west, Whose orb when half retir'd looks loveliest. There hung the history of the Genii-King, Trac'd through each gay, voluptuous wandering With her from SABA's bowers, in whose bright eyes He read that to be blest is to be wise;--'I' Murphy's work, too, we find that the Arabs of Spain had no objection to the introduction of figures into painting. This is not quite astronomically true. "Dr. Hadley (says Keil) has shown that Venus is brightest when she is about forty degrees removed from the sun; and that then but only ajburth part of her lucid disk is to be seen from the earth." 1' For the loves of King Solomon (who was supposed to preside over the whole race of Genii) with Balkis, the Queen of Sheba, or Saba, see D'fIerbel0t and the Notes on the Koran, chap. 2. "In the palace which Solomon ordered to be built against the arrival of the Queen of Saba, the floor or pavement was of transparent glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming." This led the Queen into a very natural mistake, which the Koran has not.thought beneath its dignity to commemorate. " It was said unto her, 'Enter the palace.' And when she saw it she imagined it to he a great water; and she discovered her legs by lifting up her robe to pass through it. Whereupon Solomon said to her, ' Verily, this is the place evenly floored with gluss.' "--Chap. 27. fkre fond ZULEIKA woos with open arms The Hebrew boy, who flies from her young charms, Yet flying, turns to gaze, and, half undone, Wishes that Heav'n and she could both be won; And here MOHAMMED, born for...