by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949)
The myrtles of Damascus, when they smile
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The myrtles of Damascus, when they smile, Exalt my soul to some remote, high place — But O thy face! Roses of Baghdad, bathed in moonlight dew, Make my heart drunk when all their joy it sips — But O thy lips!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Charles Hanson Towne, The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, B. W. Dodge & Company, New York 1908, Page 115.
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- by Charles Hanson Towne (1877 - 1949), no title, appears in The Quiet Singer and Other Poems, in Songs out of the Orient, in 84. A Baghdad Lover (Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade’s Songs in “The Thousand and One Nights”), no. 7, New York, B. W. Dodge & Company, first published 1908 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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