Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Persia: Oman, Sea of (Arabian Sea) | | Oman’s Sea | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | (From Lalla Rookh)
’T IS moonlight over Oman’s Sea; | |
| Her banks of pearl and palmy isles | |
| Bask in the night-beam beauteously, | |
| And her blue waters sleep in smiles. | |
| ’T is moonlight in Harmozia’s walls, | 5 |
| And through her Emir’s porphyry halls, | |
| Where, some hours since, was heard the swell | |
| Of trumpet and the clash of zel | |
| Bidding the bright-eyed sun farewell;— | |
| The peaceful sun, whom better suits | 10 |
| The music of the bulbul’s nest, | |
| Or the light touch of lovers’ lutes, | |
| To sing him to his golden rest. | |
| All hushed,—there ’s not a breeze in motion; | |
| The shore is silent as the ocean. | 15 |
| If zephyrs come, so light they come, | |
| Nor leaf is stirred nor wave is driven; | |
| The wind-tower on the Emir’s dome | |
| Can hardly win a breath from heaven. | | | | |
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