CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
AFGHANISTAN (PUS'HTO)
[The Princess of Qulzum]
[Come, my Beloved!]
[Ballade of Muhammad Khan]
[Ghazal of Tavakkul]
[Ghazal of Sayyid Kamal]
[Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad]
[Ghazal of Pir Muhammad]
[Ballade of Nurshali]
[Ghazal of Muhammad Din Tilai]
[Micra]
[Ballade of Muhammad Din Tilai]
[Ghazal of Mira]
[Ghazal of Majid Shah]
[Ghazal of Mira]
[Ballade of Ajam the Washerman]
[Ghazal of Isa Akhun Zada]
ANNAM
[The Bamboo Garden]
[Stranger Things have Happened]
[Nocturne]
[The Gao Flower]
[The Girl of Ke-Mo]
[The Little Woman of Clear River]
[Waiting to Marry a Student]
[A Song for Two]
ARABIC
[Sand]
[Two Similes]
[Melodian]
[The Lost Lady]
[Love Brown and Bitter]
[Okhouan]
[Lying Down Alone]
[Old Greek Lovers]
[Night and Morning]
[In a Yellow Frame]
[Because the Good are Never Fair]
[White and Green and Black Tears]
[A Conceit]
[Values]
[What Love Is]
[The Dancing Heart]
[The Great Offence]
[An Escape]
[Three Queens]
[Her Nails]
[Perturbation at Dawn]
[The Resurrection of the Tattooed Girl]
[Moallaka of Antar]
[Moallaka of Amr Ebn Kultum]
BALUCHISTAN
[Comparisons]
BURMA
[A Canker in the Heart]
CAMBODIA
[Disquiet]
CAUCASUS
[Vengeance]
[The Flight]
CHINA
[We were Two Green Rushes]
[Song Writer Paid with Air]
[The Bad Road]
[The Western Window]
[In Lukewarm Weather]
[Written on White Frost]
[A Flute of Marvel]
[The Willow-Leaf]
[A Poet Looks at the Moon]
[We Two in a Park at Night]
[The Jade Staircase]
[The Morning Shower]
[A Virtuous Wife]
[Written on a Wall in Spring]
[A Poet Thinks]
[In the Cold Night]
DAGHESTAN
[Winter Comes]
GEORGIA
[Part of a Ghazal]
HINDUSTAN
[Fard]
[Incurable]
[A Poem]
[Fard]
[Mortification]
[Fard]
JAPAN
[Grief and the Sleeve]
[Drink Song]
[A Boat Comes In]
[The Opinion of Men]
[Old Scent of the Plum-tree]
[An Orange Sleeve]
[Invitation]
[The Clocks of Death]
[Green Food for a Queen]
[The Cushion]
[A Single Night]
[At a Dance of Girls]
[Alone One Night]
KAFIRISTAN
[Walking up a Hill at Dawn]
[Proposal of Marriage]
KAZACKS
[You do not Want Me, Zohrah]
KOREA
[Tears]
[The Dream]
[Separation]
KURDISTAN
[Paradise]
LAOS
[Misadventure]
[Khap-Salung]
[The Holy Swan]
MANCHURIA
[Fire and Love]
[Hearts of Women]
PERSIA
[To His Love instead of a Promised Picture Book]
[Too Short a Night]
[The Roses]
[I Asked my Love]
[A Request]
[See You Have Dancers]
SIAM
[The Sighing Heart]
SYRIA
[Handing over the Gun]
TATARS
[Honey]
THIBET
[The Love of the Archer Prince]
TURKESTAN
[Distich]
[Things Seen in Battle]
[Hunter's Song]
TURKEY
[The Bath]
[Distich]
[A Proverb]
[ENVOY IN AUTUMN]
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