INTRODUCTION
AFGHANISTAN (PUS'HTO)

The Princess of Qulzum

Come, my Beloved!

Ballade of Muhammad Khan

Ghazal of Tavakkul

Ghazal of Sayyid Kamal

Ghazal of Sayyid Ahmad

Ghazal of Pir Muhammad

Ballade of Nurshali

Ghazal of Muhammad Din Tilai

Micra

Ballade of Muhammad Din Tilai

Ghazal of Mira

Ghazal of Majid Shah

Ghazal of Mira

Ballade of Ajam the Washerman

Ghazal of Isa Akhun Zada

ANNAM

The Bamboo Garden

Stranger Things have Happened

Nocturne

The Gao Flower

The Girl of Ke-Mo

The Little Woman of Clear River

Waiting to Marry a Student

A Song for Two

ARABIC

Sand

Two Similes

Melodian

The Lost Lady

Love Brown and Bitter

Okhouan

Lying Down Alone

Old Greek Lovers

Night and Morning

In a Yellow Frame

Because the Good are Never Fair

White and Green and Black Tears

A Conceit

Values

What Love Is

The Dancing Heart

The Great Offence

An Escape

Three Queens

Her Nails

Perturbation at Dawn

The Resurrection of the Tattooed Girl

Moallaka of Antar

Moallaka of Amr Ebn Kultum

BALUCHISTAN

Comparisons

BURMA

A Canker in the Heart

CAMBODIA

Disquiet

CAUCASUS

Vengeance

The Flight

CHINA

We were Two Green Rushes

Song Writer Paid with Air

The Bad Road

The Western Window

In Lukewarm Weather

Written on White Frost

A Flute of Marvel

The Willow-Leaf

A Poet Looks at the Moon

We Two in a Park at Night

The Jade Staircase

The Morning Shower

A Virtuous Wife

Written on a Wall in Spring

A Poet Thinks

In the Cold Night

DAGHESTAN

Winter Comes

GEORGIA

Part of a Ghazal

HINDUSTAN

Fard

Incurable

A Poem

Fard

Mortification

Fard

JAPAN

Grief and the Sleeve

Drink Song

A Boat Comes In

The Opinion of Men

Old Scent of the Plum-tree

An Orange Sleeve

Invitation

The Clocks of Death

Green Food for a Queen

The Cushion

A Single Night

At a Dance of Girls

Alone One Night

KAFIRISTAN

Walking up a Hill at Dawn

Proposal of Marriage

KAZACKS

You do not Want Me, Zohrah

KOREA

Tears

The Dream

Separation

KURDISTAN

Paradise

LAOS

Misadventure

Khap-Salung

The Holy Swan

MANCHURIA

Fire and Love

Hearts of Women

PERSIA

To His Love instead of a Promised Picture Book

Too Short a Night

The Roses

I Asked my Love

A Request

See You Have Dancers

SIAM

The Sighing Heart

SYRIA

Handing over the Gun

TATARS

Honey

THIBET

The Love of the Archer Prince

TURKESTAN

Distich

Things Seen in Battle

Hunter's Song

TURKEY

The Bath

Distich

A Proverb

ENVOY IN AUTUMN
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES

The Garden Of Bright Waters