Poems from Eastern Sources: The Steadfast Prince; and Other Poems

BY RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. MDCCCXLII.
LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.



POEMS FROM EASTERN SOURCES.

The following Poems bear somewhat a vague title, because such only would describe the nature of Poems which have been derived in very different degrees from the sources thus indicated. Some are mere translations; others have been modelled anew, and only such portions used of the originals as were adapted to my purpose: of others it is only the imagery and thought which are Eastern, and these have been put together in new combinations; while of others it is the story, and nothing more, which has been borrowed, it may be from some prose source. On this subject, however, more information will be given in the Notes.

Fierce was the glare of Cashmere’s middle day,
When Alexander for Hydaspes bent,
Through trackless wilds urged his impetuous way