"'Twas on the sixth of June, about the hour Of half-past six—perhaps still nearer seven— When Julia sate within as pre…"

"He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri's knees, His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas."

"Thy wife or thy daughter, that Eastern houri that thou lockest under thy arm as thou wouldst thy treasure-casket?"

"Then the lady took the cup, and drank it off to her sisters' health, and they ceased not drinking (the Porter being i…"

"The blessed Verse 56 treats of the six Blessing – chaste spouses in Paradise. The blessed Verse is saying that there …"

"It is true that simple-minded religious men have conceived their goal as a state of continued existence beyond the gr…"

"Call her Cockatrice and Siren, Basilisk, and all that’s evil, Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil, Ethiop, Wench, and Blacka…"

"Be thou like the imperial basilisk, Killing thy foe with unapparent wounds! Gaze on oppression, till at that dread ri…"

"Those deserts of immeasurable sand, Whose age-collected fervours scarce allowed A bird to live, a blade of grass to s…"

"For see, my friend goes shaking and white; He eyes me as the basilisk: I have turned, it appears, his day to night, E…"