Source: The Light of Asia
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“The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.”
Source: Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems
“Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.”
Source: The Light of Asia: Or the Great Renunciation Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism
Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.”
Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)
“Yet who shall shut out Fate?”
Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)
“That what will come, and must come, shall come well.”
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.”
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume II: Numbers 16–30
Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)
Source: The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation
“A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.”
“One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.”
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers”
Source: Potiphar's Wife, and Other Poems
Source: The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita: Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna: One of the Great Religious Classics of All Time - Synthesis of the Brahmanical concept of Dharma, theistic bhakti, the yogic ideals of moksha, and Raja Yoga & Samkhya philosophy
“Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!”
Source: The Secret of Death, from the Sanskrit: With Some Collected Poems
“Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.”
Source: Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems
Source: Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…
“Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.”
Source: The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation
“Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.”
“Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.”
Source: Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems
Source: The Light of Asia; Or, The Great Renunciation: The Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism
“Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.”
Source: The Light of Asia, or the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana): Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (as Told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist)