"Highborn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to light, * And nightly sleep mine eyelids fled and changed to sleepless night: Oh world! Oh Fate! withhold thy hand and cease thy hurt and harm * Look and behold my hapless sprite in colour and affright: Wilt ne'er show ruth to highborn youth who lost him on the way * Of Love, and fell from wealth and fame to lowest basest wight. Jealous of Zephyr's breath was I as on your form he breathed * But whenas Destiny descends she blindeth human sight[FN111] What shall the hapless archer do who when he fronts his foe * And bends ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... Like a highborn maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, ...
— Eighth Reader • James Baldwin |
