"All things spoke peace and plenty, and the Prince Saw and rejoiced. But, looking deep, he saw The thorns which grow u…"

"We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is, so is morta…"

"The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do."

"Below the highest sphere four Regents sit Who rule our world, and under them are zones Nearer, but high, where saintl…"

"He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all his friends:— Faithful friends! It lies I know Pale and white and cold …"

"Like everything the British poet Edwin Arnold wrote, The Light of Asia was quickly written: a poem in eight books of …"

"Arnold’s great project was a blank verse poem based loosely on the Lalitavistara Sutra. It ran for forty-one thousand…"

"Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years, The King commanded that there should be built Three stately houses, on…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"