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The Garden of Bright Waters

by E. Powys Mathers

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  1. 1Dedication: To My Wife
  2. 2The Princess of Qulzum
  3. 3Come, My Beloved!
  4. 4Ballade of Muhammad Khan
  5. 5Ghazal of Tavakkul
  6. 6Ghazal of Sayyid Kamal
  7. 7Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad
  8. 8Ghazal, in Lament for the Dead, of Pir Muhammad
  9. 9Ballade of Nurshali
  10. 10Ghazal of Muhammad Din Tilai
  11. 11Micra
  12. 12Ballade of Muhammad Din Tilai
  13. 13Ghazal of Mira
  14. 14Ghazal of Majid Shah
  15. 15Ghazal of Mira
  16. 16Ballade of Ajam the Washerman
  17. 17Ghazal of Isa Akhun Zada
  18. 18Annam
  19. 19Stranger Things Have Happened
  20. 20Nocturne
  21. 21The Gao Flower
  22. 22The Girl of Ke-Mo
  23. 23The Little Woman of Clear River
  24. 24Waiting to Marry a Student
  25. 25A Song for Two
  26. 26Arabic
  27. 27Two Similes
  28. 28Melodian
  29. 29The Lost Lady
  30. 30Love Brown and Bitter
  31. 31Okhouan
  32. 32Lying Down Alone
  33. 33Old Greek Lovers
  34. 34Night and Morning
  35. 35In a Yellow Frame
  36. 36Because the Good Are Never Fair
  37. 37White and Green and Black Tears
  38. 38A Conceit
  39. 39Values
  40. 40What Love Is
  41. 41The Dancing Heart
  42. 42The Great Offence
  43. 43An Escape
  44. 44Three Queens
  45. 45Her Nails
  46. 46Perturbation at Dawn
  47. 47The Resurrection of the Tattooed Girl
  48. 48Moallaka
  49. 49Moallaka
  50. 50Baluchistan — Comparisons
  51. 51Burma — A Canker in the Heart
  52. 52Cambodia — Disquiet
  53. 53Caucasus
  54. 54The Flight
  55. 55China
  56. 56Song Writer Paid With Air
  57. 57The Bad Road
  58. 58The Western Window
  59. 59In Lukewarm Weather
  60. 60Written on White Frost
  61. 61A Flute of Marvel
  62. 62The Willow-Leaf
  63. 63A Poet Looks at the Moon
  64. 64We Two in a Park at Night
  65. 65The Jade Staircase
  66. 66The Morning Shower
  67. 67A Virtuous Wife
  68. 68Written on a Wall in Spring
  69. 69A Poet Thinks
  70. 70In the Cold Night
  71. 71Daghestan — Winter Comes
  72. 72Georgia — Part of a Ghazal · Hindustan — Incurable
  73. 73A Poem
  74. 74Fard — Mortification
  75. 75Fard · Japan — Drink Song
  76. 76A Boat Comes in
  77. 77The Opinion of Men
  78. 78Old Scent of the Plum-tree
  79. 79An Orange Sleeve
  80. 80Invitation — The Clocks of Death
  81. 81Green Food for a Queen
  82. 82The Cushion
  83. 83A Single Night
  84. 84At a Dance of Girls
  85. 85Alone One Night
  86. 86Kafiristan
  87. 87Proposal of Marriage
  88. 88Kazacks — You Do Not Want Me?
  89. 89Korea
  90. 90The Dream
  91. 91Separation
  92. 92Kurdistan — Paradise
  93. 93Laos
  94. 94Khap-Salung
  95. 95The Holy Swan
  96. 96Manchuria
  97. 97Hearts of Women
  98. 98Persia
  99. 99Too Short a Night
  100. 100The Roses
  101. 101I Asked My Love
  102. 102A Request
  103. 103See You Have Dancers
  104. 104Siam — The Sighing Heart
  105. 105Syria — Handing Over the Gun
  106. 106Tatars — Honey
  107. 107Thibet — The Love of the Archer Prince
  108. 108Turkestan — Things Seen in a Battle
  109. 109Hunter’s Song
  110. 110Turkey
  111. 111Distich · A Proverb — Envoy in Autumn
  112. 112Translator’s Notes

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