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    Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur
    Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur
    Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur
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    Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur

    By Nizamat Jung

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur - Nizamat Jung

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sonnets by Nizam-ud-din-Ahmad, (Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Sonnets

      Author: Nizam-ud-din-Ahmad, (Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur)

      Release Date: February 24, 2004 [EBook #11266]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONNETS ***

      Produced by Olaf Voss and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      SONNETS

      BY THE

      NAWAB NIZAMAT JUNG BAHADUR

      "Love is not discoverable by the eye, but only by the soul. Its elements are indeed innate in our mortal constitution, and we give it the names of Joy and Aphrodite; but in its highest nature no mortal hath fully comprehended it."

      EMPEDOCLES.

      "Every one choose the object of his affections according to his character…. The Divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and by these the wings of the soul are nourished."

      PLATO.

      1917

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD, BY R.C. FRASER NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SONNET IN ENGLISH LITERATURE PROLOGUE I. REBIRTH II. THE CROWN OF LIFE III. BEFORE THE THRONE IV. WORSHIP V. UNITY VI. LOVE'S SILENCE VII. THE SUBLIME HOPE VIII. THE HEART OF LOVE IX. 'TWIXT STAR AND STAR X. THE HIGHER KNIGHTHOOD XI. IN BEAUTY'S BLOOM XII. ETERNAL JOY XIII. CONSTANCY XIV. CALM AFTER STORM XV. THE STAR OF LOVE XVI. IMPRISONED MUSIC XVII. LOVE'S MESSAGE XVIII. ECSTASY XIX. THE DREAM XX. ETHEREAL BEAUTY XXI. A CROWN OF THORNS XXII. TWO HEARTS IN ONE XXIII. YEARNING XXIV. LOVE'S GIFT EPILOGUE

      FOREWORD

      BY RICHARD CHARLES FRASER

      The following Sonnet Sequence,—written during rare intervals of leisure in a busy and strenuous life,—was privately printed in Madras early in 1914, without any intention of publication on the part of the author. He has, however, now consented to allow it to be given to a wider audience; and we anticipate in many directions a welcome for this small but significant volume by the writer of India to England, one of the most popular and often-quoted lyrics evoked by the Great War.

      The Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur, was born in the State of Hyderabad, but educated in England; and there are some—at Cambridge and elsewhere—who will remember his keenly discriminating interest in British history and literature, and the comprehensive way he, in a few words, would indicate his impressions of poets and heroes, long dead, but to him ever-living.

      His appreciation was both ardent and just; he could swiftly recognise the nobler elements in characters which at first glance might seem startlingly dissimilar; and he could pass without apparent effort from study of the lives

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