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Saadi

(Encyclopedia) Saadi: see Sadi.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Saadi

SaadiTrees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern lakes fly wind-borne ducks, Browse the mountain sheep in flocks, Men…

Sadi

(Encyclopedia) Sadi or SaadiSadiboth: säˈdē [key], Persian poet, 1184–1291. b. Shiraz. Orphaned at an early age, Sadi studied in Baghdad, where he met Suhrawardi, a major Sufi figure. Having to flee…

Fès

(Encyclopedia) Fès Fès fĕs [key] or Fez Fès fĕz…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: V

VMask thy wisdom with delight, Toy with the bow, yet hit the white, As Jelaleddin old and gray; He seemed to bask, to dream and play Without remoter hope or fear Than still to entertain his…

Top 100 Works in World Literature

Source: Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2002. The editors of the Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, polled a panel of 100 authors from 54…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: III

IIISaid Saadi, "When I stood before Hassan the camel-driver's door, I scorned the fame of Timour brave; Timour, to Hassan, was a slave. In every glance of Hassan's eye I read great years of…

Poems

  Contents Good-Bye Each and All The Problem To Rhea The Visit Uriel The World-Soul The Sphinx Alphonso of Castile Mithridates To J.W. Destiny Guy Hamatreya The Rhodora: The…

2003 PEN Literary Award Winners

PEN/Laura Pels Award for Drama John Guare, master American dramatist Craig Lucas, playwright in mid-career PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship Franny Billingsley PEN/…