Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers

· 1896

"The smiling Garden of Persian Literature": a Garden which I would describe, in the Eastern style, as a happy spot, where lavish Nature with profusion strews the most fragrant and blooming flowers, where the most delicious fruits abound, which is ever vocal with the plaintive melancholy of the nightingale, who, during day and night, "tunes her love-laboured song": ... where the voice of Wisdom is often heard uttering her moral sentence, or delivering the dictates of experience.--SIR W. OUSELEY. AUTHOR OF 'POPULAR TALES AND FICTIONS' AND 'BOOK OF NOODLES'; EDITOR OF 'A GROUP OF EASTERN ROMANCES AND STORIES,' 'BOOK OF SINDIBAD,' 'BAKHTYAR NAMA,' 'ARABIAN POETRY FOR ENGLISH READERS,' ETC.…

Read free

Your support pays for translating these classics into more languages.

Support for $12/month DonateSubscribers read with instant translation, without waiting for the free daily limit.

Lindy Books — 78,696 public-domain classics, free forever. No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Browse the library