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

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Title: Sonnets

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

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

Language: English

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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