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  • 333 The doggerel of this Kasidah is not so phenomenal as some we have seen.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She wrote no "Kasidah" of complaint, but suffered and was strong.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • The recurrence of this minor chord, in the savage sweep of Burton's protest against the irony of existence, is a fascination that the "Kasidah" has in common with every great poem of the world.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Burton's "Kasidah" is miserably printed in his "Life," but Mr. Thomas Mosher, of Portland, Maine, has issued it in beautiful and chaste form, for the edification of his clientele of searchers for the literature that is always almost, but never quite completely forgotten.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • The "Kasidah" was written in 1853, and it is, in its opening, much like Fitz Gerald's Rubaiyat, though Burton never saw that gem of philosophy and song, until eight years after.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • It may serve well for three or four couplets but, when it extends, as in the Ghazal-cannon, to eighteen, and in the Kasidah, elegy or ode, to more, it must either satisfy itself with banal rhyme words, when the assonants should as

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Said he to her, “I purpose to recite a Kasidah, an ode, in his praise, that he may redouble in affection for me.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I am embellishing his mausoleum, and am putting up in honour of his poem, Kasidah, festoons of camel bells from the desert, in the roof of the tent where he lies, so that when I open or shut the door, or at the elevation of the Mass, the ‘tinkling of the camel bell’ will sound just as it does in the desert.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • This year, Burton, emulous of fame as an original poet, published The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, A Lay of the Higher

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • The story is strangely paralleled by that of the writing of The Kasidah; or in other words it recalls traits that were eminently characteristic of Burton.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

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