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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