Flowers From Persian Poets (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Flowers From Persian Poets

Genuine poetry, like gold, is universal and survives a] permutations. The Hebrew psalms, or their prototypes the canticles of the Akkada, lose little in beauty or majest translated into any language. While form makes a larg part of the beauty of poetry, yet poetry is more than form Homer in prose is more satisfactory than Homer in Englisl hexameters. If the thought and the spirit are preserved the metre of a translation is of comparatively small con sequence.

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