Author: de Vere, Aubrey
Cited by
- Eliot Warburton (1)
- IN: The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume I. (1846) Non-Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: Where'er the sun before them shone,
And paved the world with gold,
They passed. Round Earth's most favoured zone
Their chief his turban rolled.
From Hagar's desert, Ishmael's plains,
To Ocean's western fold.
They reared their crescent-crowned fanes,
And cloistered fountains cold.
FROM: Ode on Islam, (1843), Poem, UK